Bringing Analysis Through Customs
Wow. I leave the country for a bit and everything gets turned on its head. Clinton starts winning again (or at least stops losing), Obama’s people are meeting with the Canadians, Bush endorses McCain, and the interminable Huckabee campaign finally terminates.
Well, now that I am back in the U.S., I have a lot of ground to make up in trying to analyze the shifting political dynamics. The next couple posts will try to deal with some of the events that have happened in the past couple weeks, starting with the Democratic debate in Cleveland and moving through the races last Tuesday, as well as the future direction for the three remaining candidates.
This post also marks the introduction of more micro-analysis. As the candidates start to emerge from the primary free-for-all, they, and their respective parties, will begin to rally ever more obstinately around certain issues and causes. Ideology is now fair play, and play it we shall.
So sit back and hold on, because contrary to the slow-down that appeared to have taken place on this blog, we are in fact beginning to accelerate. The issues are collecting front and center, and it is high time that they be reexamined in different light. The rhetoric will only take the candidates so far; reason and results will carry them the rest of the way.
