Bainbridge Pseudo-Populism Award

For background on the Bainbridge prize, read this. Today's winner is David Brooks, who attributes John Kerry's defeat to the inability of blue-staters to buy his book. Timothy Noah reports:

Brooks doesn't actually write, "If you read one book this year, read On Paradise Drive." Instead, he berates himself for failing to "adequately describe the oxymoronic attraction these places have for millions of people." On the one hand, they're conformist and orderly. On the other hand, they're the wild, wooly frontier. O speak, Muse!

To reiterate: can I have this job please?