I think the best way to come to grips with the election result is to make yourself believe that even perfectly random policy decisions would have a %10 chance of outperforming the most well reasoned policies, due to the freakish vicissitudes of the world, thus, being charitable, even a poorly reasoned policy has about a %30 of working out for the best. Which is better odds than you get on an inside straight draw -- we've almost got a two-way draw, if I'm right. And I'm not sure we would have had top pair if we went with Kerry anyway.



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