5 November 2012:
Even more embarrassing.
Legible, but you still can't read it:
At first glance, political opinion polls seems like the nadir of modern liberal democracy. In their special alchemy they congeal a sensitivity to the will of the people and an emphasis on mathematical exactitude. The poll is the culmination of the peculiar modern marriage of science and popular sovereignty, the technocratic and the democratic. To borrow from Hamilton, and by borrow I mean disfigure, the poll is the ultimate success of our “grand experiment in self-governance.”
Of course, on another interpretation, they are completely useless.
Points for congeal.
2 comments:
Seems like a lot of gasbags owe Nate Silver apologies.
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Saw Krauthammer on Fox the night of the election. In the midst of all the other hi-larity, I thought that botox is surely a neurotoxin and if you inject enough directly into your head this is what you end up with....
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