http://sorendayton.com/2007/10/20/frc-wrap-up/ Merely an aggregation of a dispersed life online Fri, 27 Nov 2009 06:08:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://sorendayton.com/2007/10/20/frc-wrap-up/comment-page-1/#comment-544 eyeon08.com » What coulda been Mon, 22 Oct 2007 18:38:03 +0000 http://www.eyeon08.com/2007/10/20/frc-wrap-up/#comment-544 [...] 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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