http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/10/20/frc-wrap-up/ Covering the 2008 election Tue, 02 Dec 2008 19:15:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.5 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/10/20/frc-wrap-up/#comment-36650 Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:38:03 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/10/20/frc-wrap-up/#comment-36650 [...] One of the lessons that I learned early on in my political career, was that the vote was the 2nd most interesting thing that happens at a political event like a convention. There is always horse-trading before, but there is also horse-trading afterwards. People frame, spin, and negotiate what happened. And that is the most interesting thing. I speculated: When the social conservative leaders meet tomorrow for their post-mortem, they will not be able to push people into supporting Romney. [...] […] One of the lessons that I learned early on in my political career, was that the vote was the 2nd most interesting thing that happens at a political event like a convention. There is always horse-trading before, but there is also horse-trading afterwards. People frame, spin, and negotiate what happened. And that is the most interesting thing. I speculated: When the social conservative leaders meet tomorrow for their post-mortem, they will not be able to push people into supporting Romney. […]

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