I’m a Rationalist, But…
As a rationalist, I tend to try to avoid too much superstitious nonsense. But elections make me ever so slightly superstitious. So here's two recent pop culture events I've consumed that incline me towards superstitious predictions about today's results.
The Super Bowl shares a striking similarity with the Democratic race. The Patriots went into the game as a historic juggernaut, with the assumption that the Super Bowl was just going to be theirs. The Giants were the scrappy, but loved, underdogs. But right off the bat the Giants put up a fight, and after a long, evenly matched battle, managed to scratch out a victory through what seemed to be sheer tenacity. Does this bode well for Obama's chances against the presumed nominee Hillary Clinton? Real sports fans could probably draw out even more coincidences, but I'm leaving it at that, especially in case I'm wrong. I will say that a Republican friend told me that he and his wife were crossing the aisle to vote in the Democratic primaries for Obama.
As for the Republicans, well, the movie There Will Be Blood seemed an ominous portend after watching it Friday night. (GIANT FRIGGIN' SPOILER ALERT!) While the middle of the movie is dominated by a story about a religious zealot bringing the uber-capitalist oilman under his control, it ends with the oilman devastating the zealot financially before bashing his head in with a bowling pin. You'd be hard-pressed to find a better metaphor for the ups and downs for the Republican candidates this primary season.
As a rationalist, I tend to try to avoid too much superstitious nonsense. But elections make me ever so slightly superstitious. So here's two recent pop culture events I've consumed that incline me towards superstitious predictions about today's results.
The Super Bowl shares a striking similarity with the Democratic race. The Patriots went into the game as a historic juggernaut, with the assumption that the Super Bowl was just going to be theirs. The Giants were the scrappy, but loved, underdogs. But right off the bat the Giants put up a fight, and after a long, evenly matched battle, managed to scratch out a victory through what seemed to be sheer tenacity. Does this bode well for Obama's chances against the presumed nominee Hillary Clinton? Real sports fans could probably draw out even more coincidences, but I'm leaving it at that, especially in case I'm wrong. I will say that a Republican friend told me that he and his wife were crossing the aisle to vote in the Democratic primaries for Obama.
As for the Republicans, well, the movie There Will Be Blood seemed an ominous portend after watching it Friday night. (GIANT FRIGGIN' SPOILER ALERT!) While the middle of the movie is dominated by a story about a religious zealot bringing the uber-capitalist oilman under his control, it ends with the oilman devastating the zealot financially before bashing his head in with a bowling pin. You'd be hard-pressed to find a better metaphor for the ups and downs for the Republican candidates this primary season.