Thursday, July 03, 2008

How to lose an election faster than you can say flip-flop

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6 comments:

Mr roT said...

PuffHo agrees with you. I don't know. No one has won an election from the extremes but maybe this would be the time to try. I hope Obama does whatever he can to lose the left and make the middle think he's insincere. This could well be the right recipe.

7/03/2008 3:06 PM
Pepe le Pew said...

It is a very different situation in this case: what you refer to as the (political) extreme is the (demographic) mainstream which Obama probably shouldn't lose.

7/03/2008 3:12 PM
Mr roT said...

I don't understand what you're saying. I think Obama will lose the interest of the hard left if he keeps trying to nuance his way toward reason on Iraq, among other things like NAFTA...

I don't think those lefties will vote for McCain, but they may stay home just as a lot of SBJ and knee-jerk anti immigration types will stay home if McCain doesn't show his bona fides to their causes.

Elections are obviously won in the middle without alienating the wings. Both candidates seem to run this danger now while it before had seemed only to be McCain's problem with SBJ.

7/03/2008 4:48 PM
Mr roT said...

what is the sound of one rat jumping?

7/04/2008 10:26 AM
Tecumseh said...

JJ: Your analysis of the Right and Left in the US smacks of condescension. There must be someone, somewhere, off the vast mushy Center that holds some principle d conviction, no? Ah, well, if you say so...

7/04/2008 3:30 PM
Mr roT said...

The extremes are populated by believers. I am a pragmatist.

7/04/2008 4:22 PM

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