Bending the Third Rail
Because We Should, We Can, We Do
Friday, November 10, 2006
Good Point
Billmon takes a look at some polling data on when voters made their decision and reaches this conclusion:
This may seem a trivial point now, given what's happened since. But it seems worth remembering that the size of the Democratic wave was hugely influenced at the margin (which is where it counts) by that tenth of the electorate who couldn't make up their minds until literally the last minute -- despite everything that's been done, said, reported and revealed over the two years since they were last asked to take the fate of the world's only superpower into their hands.

Next time, they could easily break the other way, for reasons just as ephemeral.

Hell of a way to run an empire.
Given the changing attention span in America, I would suppose that this is a trend in the direction of more last minute decisions rather than less. And as Billmon said, Hell of a way to run an empire.
Written at 8:27 AM by Greyhair.
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