Schama pondered over how voters might choose the leader they prefer in the coming election. For example “You’re a granny – who do you think really knows what it’s like on a wet morning in Macclesfield waiting for a bus?”
Well. I am [almost] that granny from Macclesfield, & the answer is none of the above.
I have decided how I am going to vote however, did it towards the end of last week, largely because I found out that I live in one of the top marginals. On the grounds that, however special you think you are, you are never the only one, others must have done so too. Barring of course some absolute shocker of a development.
Simon Schama has taken a special interest in President Obama. A commentator on another recent Radio 4 programme about why people vote against their own interests also remarked on the preference for angry men:
Obama doesn’t do anger – that’s why he won.
Obama doesn’t do anger – that’s why he’s losing the policy argument.
Well, Obama seems to have learned now – maybe he has been taking lessons from the man who saved the banks (&the world)
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