My Super Short Thoughts on the Election
1. For about a month or so leading up to the election, I had the graphic you see to the left in the sidebar of this site. Of course, I’m not so foolish as to believe that the tens of visitors I get on a daily basis would be influenced by it enough to change a McCain vote to an Obama vote. I had it there because I felt good about having it there. I can sum up the reasons why Barack Obama won last night pretty easily. One of them is that people like me, people that vote Democrat regularly, people that voted for Gore in 2000 and Kerry in 2004, felt differently about Obama than we felt about both Gore and Kerry. We voted for Gore and Kerry, but we were not inspired by them. They did not represent generational change. They did not speak to us the same way that Obama does. I was proud to vote for Gore and Kerry. I was excited to vote for Obama. This is the first time in my life that I have gone beyond just voting and actually contributed financially to a campaign. My $25 probably didn’t pay for much more than a few streamers at the convention, but I was happy to provide what I could.
Political Thought For the Day - Disappoint Your Opponent
There’s a principle in poker that says it is best to determine what your opponent wants you to do, then disappoint him. This very neatly explains why Obama did not choose Hillary for his VP running mate. Simply put, the Republicans wanted Hillary.They have 16 years’ worth of material worked up on how to take her down and that’s just counting her national presence since 1992. It’s high time the Democrats stop giving the Republicans what they want.
It’s true in poker, and it’s true in politics: disappoint your opponent, win the battle.
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