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February 1, 2012
JOE COOL CARRIES THE TWO
White House to Play Percentages in 2012 Race
For
ninety interminably long minutes on 1/24/12, the president
of the United States played his hand. All that anyone
needs to know about the obligatory laundry list cum
base rouser that usually fills a final first-term State
of the Union address is that it's going to be the Summer
of Populism for the most pragmatic chief executive of
my lifetime. This is how Barack Hussein Obama burst
upon his first campaign for the job he eventually won
in the autumn of 2008, and the way he has governed since.
The White House will play the percentages, weigh the
margins, and use the Karl Rove schematic for winning
a national electoral election: Ignore useless national
polls and vacillating approval ratings and figure the
best way to get to the magic 270.
While
his proposed Republican challengers walk all over each
other trying desperately to shift Right, mainly because
two of the frontrunners have to distance a centrist
to liberal past and get the party's nomination, Joe
Cool studies the trends of a thorny electorate that
has shown the kind of mercurial nature mostly exhibited
by the bipolar. In the last decade alone the national
vote has gone from geo-political to anti-war to wildly
progressive to conservatively entrenched to whatever
the hell is happening now.
This
is why Obama's State of the Union appeared to be written
by less ideologue than actuary.
The
Numbers People are what matter in elections. They have
the vital information on who is available to woo, who
is already on board, and who is most likely to be courted.
National politics is not sport. An election, as it is
at every level, is a sum-game; the first one to the
measuring stick takes the oath. Emotions, ideas, credentials;
these are the tools of the loser. Winning a presidential
election is about key numbers - not the most, but the
most within the most. Think of a Salvador Dali painting
sifted violently through a Warholian blender. This is
the Electoral College in action, a warped contest of
democratic synergy dominated only by those who embrace
nuance.
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