From Adam Radwanski's blog at globeandmail.com:

In any campaign, it's easy to lose perspective. But it's obvious that in the relatively new world of 24-hour news cycles and online attacks and way, way too much focus on war rooms, we've yet to adjust accordingly. What we had in this campaign, more than any other, was a battle fought primarily for a small cadre of political insiders and junkies, with the rest of the country tuning in itermittently and barely at all until the final ten days.

As a result, our sense of what did matter to Canadians - of what would actually impact their votes - was completely skewed. ...

I'm not seeking to offer a mea culpa for all the media, nor anyone who worked on the various campaigns; that would be more than a little presumptuous. All I'm saying is that, while the pace of news isn't going to slow down, it may be time for all of us to be a little less breathless in our response to every last twist and turn, and try a little more often to put ourselves in the shoes of people who don't live and breathe politics.