Leading up to the election, pundits and wags confidently explained to us who would win. They do this every four years to provide us all with information, of course, not sensationalize a story to fill hours upon hours of airtime with space for commercials.

I've been watching the impeachment proceedings today, listening to analysts breathlessly declare (at the risk of editorializing, some were even borderline agog) that never in history had a president been impeached twice.