tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post1091416922047659724..comments2023-10-16T07:13:12.123-05:00Comments on A plain blog about politics: Elsewhere: Polling, LosingJonathan Bernsteinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15931039630306253241noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-6866907393442862952012-11-06T05:05:24.160-06:002012-11-06T05:05:24.160-06:00Apropos of nothing, I thought last night's MNF...Apropos of nothing, I thought last night's MNF interviews was one last hurrah for how poorly the Romney campaign is run. As he did to McCain in 2008, ESPN's Chris Berman asked Romney the biggest problem in sports, and as McCain did, Romney went for the PED answer, which a later ESPN poll showed was a perfectly acceptable answer, but sounded for Romney, as it did for McCain, peevish and old man-like. <br /><br />Bigger picture, if you're Romney you're facing a daunting map where you probably need to pry away 2 out of the following three states: Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Hey, is there a famous <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Webster" rel="nofollow">football hero</a> with strong ties to Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, who tragically fell on hard times in his post-football career because of the difficulties of the sport? Could you segue from sympathy for Webster's fate to the generally scandalous post-professional career of athletes, as a perfect entree into compassionate conservatism?<br /><br />In theory, I suppose. But PEDs. That's a winning closing argument. PEDs.CSHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6926413038778731189.post-16972228532750029462012-11-05T20:32:02.147-06:002012-11-05T20:32:02.147-06:00Could you please write that column? Because I'...Could you please write that column? Because I'm a damn mathematician and even I'm sick of reading about how everything is like that thing in "Moneyball" with the guys around the table who supposedly got out-smarted by equations. (Actually, that's not really an "even", since hopefully mathematicians are the ones least susceptible to "equations = magic".)Xenocrypthttp://xenocrypt.dailykos.comnoreply@blogger.com