Romney’s High-Tech Fiasco and the Limits of Electoral Science
by Peter LawlerBIG THOUGHTS HERE . . . . Continue Reading »
Carl’s Rock Songbook #70: Social Dancing as a Key to Whit Stillman’s Films
by Carl ScottWhit Stillman fans know that his first three films are a loosely connected trilogy of sorts, with THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO being the film that ties them together by means of our meeting key characters from the other two in its Club. How then, does his recent DAMSELS IN DISTRESS, a rather stranger . . . . Continue Reading »
The Crash That Was Romney’s Election Day Get-Out-the-Vote Effort
by Peter LawlerHere’s the account of the total failure of Project ORCA . The conclusion: So, the end result was that 30,000+ of the most active and fired-up volunteers were wandering around confused and frustrated when they could have been doing anything else to help. Like driving people to the polls, . . . . Continue Reading »
Carl’s Rock Songbook #69: THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO, Pt. 2
by Carl Scott. . . one can change human institutions, but not man; whatever the general effort of a society to render citizens equal and alike, the particular pride of individuals will always seek to escape the [common] level . . . In aristocracies, men are separated from one another by high, immovable . . . . Continue Reading »
My Personal Introduction to the Christian View of the Family
by Peter LawlerAs step four of my twelve-step program to stop obsessing about the election, I’m working on part of my introduction to my study on THE CHRISTIAN VIEW OF THE FAMILY, first unveiled at BYU. For the Christians, the law of nature is love, personal love. Our hardwiring for personal logos, so to . . . . Continue Reading »
Did I Exaggerate Obama’s Machiavellian Science?
by Peter LawlerFor the record–here’s the best argument I’ve gotten against overhyping the Obama science of voter control: OH was much closer than either his or Romney’s “internals” showed. Plus there was a strangely low turnout of rural, white, mainly evangelical voters in that . . . . Continue Reading »
Stupid and Clueless
by Peter LawlerObama and the Democrats, all the experts are bragging today, had a much more “metric-driven” campaign. They had a much better handle on who would vote and why, and they were much better organized with paid guns who knew what they were doing to get their guys out. On election morning, . . . . Continue Reading »
Scattered Thoughts
by Pete Spiliakos1. Obama’s popular vote total ended up tracking his RCP job approval average very closely. That’s why I always thought it would be tough for Romney to win as long as Obama’s job approval was between 49%-50%. 2. I blew the call on Scott Brown. The Obama tide . . . . Continue Reading »
It’s Different This Time—A Cry from the Heart
by Carl ScottI wore black today. Black suit, black tie, and a black shroud over the Romney-Ryan sign in my yard. No, I do not think, contrary to countless heartfelt comments one sees on the conservative blogs today, that the republic died today. But make no mistake: something did die today. Obama voters, you . . . . Continue Reading »
Did Obama Throw the First Debate to Throw Us Off?
by Peter LawlerHere’s a very provocative analysis drawn off a RICOCHET thread: The debates became the Republican’s Achilles heel this cycle. We let them consume us during the primaries and we let them dupe us in the general. Obama gave Romney a freebie in the first debate, and suddenly everyone on our . . . . Continue Reading »
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