Gramps
Mayor
I note CU has come out with another prediction in Romney's favor which is based on past performance more than anything else. They take the data from elections done and calculate what should occur if the status quo of then applies today. It's a new twist. For the most part other prognosticators reject the findings but the two brains at CU who arrived at such an answer stand by them.
Now anything is possible. But just basing the outcome of the next presidential election on the last one tells a different story. An African American defied all of the results of previous elections and won the presidency.
The electorate in any case is difficult to predict when they are largely composed of fickle voters who pick and choose for varied reasons many of which are self-serving. America holds an edge in that category. Focusing on a single word, "change", does wonders to attract followers. In fact we have a track record of change as the rallying cry through the years and yet after the votes are counted and the elected officials take charge change is absent for the most part. I think it is because we are locked into programs that, if not dynamically amended, dictate what happens next. And dynamically amending any of the biggies could be political suicide for the party who spawns it. So practicality tells us we need to learn to live with them and make whatever adjustments are necessary.
We are presently locked in a vacuum where non-partisonship is involved and the electorate is fed-up, if you believe the polls, with the constant gridlock which is really the cause of our complacency. If I was a betting man I'd wager things will not change in that manner come November; we'll just send the same majority of egoists to represent us rather than, as the extremists say we must do, throw the whole lot out and begin anew.
I will predict with a certain amount of accuracy what we will wake-up to the morning after the final tabs declare a winner, or winners in the case of the congress; a bunch of pollsters who will have red faces and another bunch of pollsters who'll proclaim "I told you so" and a bunch of sad-assed politicians will be headed for Washington who'll screw around with our lives while they try to lay a foundation for re-election next time around. Trust me on that. And life will go on, and on, and on like is customarily does with the ruts in the road to recovery still previlent because recovery just take its time. Democracy at work, don'cha love it?
I'm reminded of a community where I lived years ago which had a volunteer fire department. They did the best they could under the circumstances when a fire broke out but truth be told more often than not they managed to save only the foundation. What we learn from that is that a fire that destroyed the structure lasted by a couple of hours but rebuilding the structure took months on end. So, the bright side of the calamity that overtook our nation when the financial structure collapsed is we did save the foundation and it will take some time to rebuild. As Carl Sandburg the poet said, "the past is a bucket of ashes" so we might just as well roll-up our sleeves and get to cracking instead of pitying ourselves for the losses and be thankful we had enough volunteers to save the foundation. Now, we need volunteers to help rebuild and the line forms at the end of this missive. Right at this moment "Uncle Sam Needs You!", not some of you but all of you.
Gramps
Gramps
Now anything is possible. But just basing the outcome of the next presidential election on the last one tells a different story. An African American defied all of the results of previous elections and won the presidency.
The electorate in any case is difficult to predict when they are largely composed of fickle voters who pick and choose for varied reasons many of which are self-serving. America holds an edge in that category. Focusing on a single word, "change", does wonders to attract followers. In fact we have a track record of change as the rallying cry through the years and yet after the votes are counted and the elected officials take charge change is absent for the most part. I think it is because we are locked into programs that, if not dynamically amended, dictate what happens next. And dynamically amending any of the biggies could be political suicide for the party who spawns it. So practicality tells us we need to learn to live with them and make whatever adjustments are necessary.
We are presently locked in a vacuum where non-partisonship is involved and the electorate is fed-up, if you believe the polls, with the constant gridlock which is really the cause of our complacency. If I was a betting man I'd wager things will not change in that manner come November; we'll just send the same majority of egoists to represent us rather than, as the extremists say we must do, throw the whole lot out and begin anew.
I will predict with a certain amount of accuracy what we will wake-up to the morning after the final tabs declare a winner, or winners in the case of the congress; a bunch of pollsters who will have red faces and another bunch of pollsters who'll proclaim "I told you so" and a bunch of sad-assed politicians will be headed for Washington who'll screw around with our lives while they try to lay a foundation for re-election next time around. Trust me on that. And life will go on, and on, and on like is customarily does with the ruts in the road to recovery still previlent because recovery just take its time. Democracy at work, don'cha love it?
I'm reminded of a community where I lived years ago which had a volunteer fire department. They did the best they could under the circumstances when a fire broke out but truth be told more often than not they managed to save only the foundation. What we learn from that is that a fire that destroyed the structure lasted by a couple of hours but rebuilding the structure took months on end. So, the bright side of the calamity that overtook our nation when the financial structure collapsed is we did save the foundation and it will take some time to rebuild. As Carl Sandburg the poet said, "the past is a bucket of ashes" so we might just as well roll-up our sleeves and get to cracking instead of pitying ourselves for the losses and be thankful we had enough volunteers to save the foundation. Now, we need volunteers to help rebuild and the line forms at the end of this missive. Right at this moment "Uncle Sam Needs You!", not some of you but all of you.
Gramps
Gramps
