This morn­ing, I noticed some­thing was amiss at the Land­mark Cen­ter Best Buy store. On the side­walk out front was a painstakingly-constructed dis­play of appli­ances, com­put­ers, and elec­tronic gad­gets on cloth-covered pedestals. The Best Buy logo had been care­fully nes­tled among these. Fac­ing this, in the park­ing lot: a fir­ing line of ENG cam­eras on tripods. A num­ber of press pho­tog­ra­phers milled about nearby. I biked right up to them and dis­cov­ered, between the appli­ances and the cam­eras, a podium bear­ing the seal of the State of Massachusetts.

“What’s going on?” I inquired of a uni­formed Best Buy employee, who had been fid­dling excit­edly with an obnoxious-looking dig­i­tal camera.

“Gov­er­nor Rom­ney is going to speak here.”

“Mitt Rom­ney is here?” I looked around, spot­ting only worker bees.

“Well, not yet.” He con­tin­ued push­ing but­tons on his camera.

“What about?”

“I dunno.”