....there is an equal and opposite reaction.
So as I watch the beginning of what is likely to be a long season of dickering between Senators Clinton and Obama, it makes me wonder....
Do Obama and Clinton cancel each other out? They're both senators, they're both striving for "moderate," they both have issues (Obama's inexperience, that real estate scandal, his voting record; Clinton's polarizing past, her high negatives). Remembering our electoral physics, if Obama and Clinton's equal and opposite reactions cancel each other out, this creates a power vaccuum into which someone entirely different might come.
Or, remembering our astrophysics class that surely followed physics, we could consider the analogy of a black hole--a space of matter so dense it sucks everything else around it towards it. If Obama and Clinton form a black hole of Democratic talent, money and media attention, it puts all Democratic eggs in one basket. Apply to this the rule of "Democrats Hate a Front Runner," and the problem solves itself.
As my transcript confirms, however, I'm really bad at physics, and especially really bad at astrophysics. The quesiton remains though: what does it mean for Democrats if Obama and Clinton cancel one another out, and neither survives the primary?
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