“Not the odds, but the stakes” should be the rule for election reporting in our times. Rather than horse-race headlines from the get-go.

Yes! I've been running around shouting this at people for a few days now, like a weirdo

This has often been my argument and I’ve made it in two countries alas the reaction is much the same whether here or the US and it’s a bit of a shrug. It’s soul destroying because most of the people are my friends.