Will #BridgeGate have legs?  Apparently not, if no new revelations come out.  It hasn’t taken long for people to get bored about the topic: talk about Christie on Twitter is already starting to fade, with Saturday, 1/11, having fewer mentions of Christie than Wednesday, when the scandal broke:

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There’s a lot of talk about whether this scandal is the end of Christie’s 2016 ambitions, and with ongoing investigations and possible new revelations it’s impossible to tell how this will all play out.  But one thing is clear: without any new news, people’s attentions are turning elsewhere.  That may help save Christie’s future — by next year the whole thing could just be dismissed as “old news” and people who use it to raise issues of character dismissed as merely grasping at straws.

Unless there’s further damaging revelations, of course…