I avoided the board for three days after the report, having

learned back when I still read the football board that after, e.g., Tulsa, it was good just to let the fallout clear. Ross Douthat's scenario actually had plausibility: Biden waits out the next few months to see how bad the reaction is. If sounder judgment prevails in his circle and his own conscience that his age, rightly or wrongly is an election killer, he can announce AFTER the primaries that he won't be running again, and throw the selection into the convention. Wouldn't that be a historic throwback? (He would also have to not endorse his VP as the alternate. A bridge too far, maybe, but we could hope.)