Football players versus pundits: who wins?
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Editor,
In America which is going to draw the larger crowd, a football game between two bitterly rival teams or an evening of lectures by two well known political pundits on their views and details of how to run a country?
I suggest that the football crowd is the Republican party candidates’ primary election supporters. And the political pundits crowd is the Democratic party primary election candidates’ supporters. Why make this comparison?
Well, a bunch of the media has been making all sorts of predictions about how the Democratic party is in real trouble this year because of the vary dramatic differences in voter turnout thus far between Republicans and Democrats.
Fast forward to the general election. Now we suddenly have one football person versus the political pundit. The football person has just come off a bruising battle involving butting heads, anger, clever strategies and lots of celebrating and ego-based chest thumping for each little achievement.
The political pundit person has just come off a series of very substantive lectures outlining nation building strategies, details on how to best help the people of the nation and generally being focused upon subjects essential to improving life in America and the world in general.
Now the two winners take on each other and make their impressions with the general public through campaign appearances and the all important debates. Which people will crowd the polls on election day in November? Will the political pundit party turn out in numbers, or will it be the exciting bruisers and chest thumpers party? I have my own views on this, but your views and America’s views are what is really important.
Bob McClellan
Polson
