Me, I don't know much about politics. I worked on a Mayoral campaign or two. I stumbled into a PR job at an agency handling four campaigns one fall a long time ago and sat in on at least one war session with Jim Inhofe. Mostly I remember that his chief of staff (or campaign manager, one) carried a man purse, and that some takeout was worth 100 hour weeks and others was not. I was a complete naif. I was a registered independent. I had two little kids. I could not have articulated a difference between Republicans and Democrats.
So, you'll forgive me when I get everything wrong in the analysis I'm going to try to deliver. Please.
It seems like David Axelrod is a fucking genius.