Contemporary elections are less about rational policies or even just desserts than they are melodramatic performances about who wears the white and who the black hat. Politics is about performing good versus evil in the dangerously shifting currents that create contemporary social scenes. Economics and poll numbers had Obama an underdog in 2012. How were his performances so felicitous as to prove them a lie?

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©2016 Jeffrey C. Alexander
2016
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