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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (518860)	1/3/2004 11:58:48 AM
From: TideGlider	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Physics and personal politics have no comparison. You are quite right. Politics, although not a logical experience, offer logical solutions. Simple ones. There is one logical conclusion I can see at this time. Dean is an unknown and the times are uncertain. In times of uncertainty. people avoid the unknown. I cannot see him winning. I am curious why he has such support, but then again, there are influences from internationals that would love to see a weak candidate like Dean take the Oval office.

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (518860)	1/3/2004 2:25:55 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

So I'd suggest your analogy is flawed from the start. Yes, but then all analogies are flawed in some respect. They are only representative in some respects, but usually not all respects. That's why we call it an analogy, as it usually illustrates some similarities. But it does not need to be an exact physical model, which in and of itself would be virtually impossible to create, in order to demonstrate commonalities. For that matter, what a physical pendulum will do depends on matters you left unspecified such as air resistance and fiction. and the little matter of the presence or absence of a gravitational field or other field of force and the orientation og the pendulum with respect to it and the behavour of the pivot point. The political pendulum is far more sensitive to changes in wind direction, than gravity, air resistance or friction. In fact the political pendulum has often been stalled out by a massive application of hot air. Orca