Okay, so if you said that I'd been working on my 2012 essay for an inordinate amount of time, I couldn't blame you. If you said that I wasn't working on it enough, I'd probably discontinue whatever relationship you - theoretical person - and I have. Yes, I am still working on my essay on the 2012 presidential election. Yes, I hope to finish it before Election Day, 2012 or the Mayan apocalypse thing that's supposed to happen that year.
But honestly, even though I'm pulling my hair out trying to finish this paper, I've enjoyed writing ever word of it. Even as I close in on forty (yes, forty) pages total, I am still having fun hypothesizing about the next presidential election. Since I last posted, I finished covering Pawlenty, and moved onto Palin, Romney, and Huckabee (the "Big Three"). Of the Big Three, I'm done with everyone except Huckabee. At this point I'm finishing up Huckabee, editing extensively, and working on the mammoth conclusion that is going to need to be tacked onto this thing.
Without giving too much away from the content and predictions of the essay, I can say that I have entered a very, very long term bet concerning the election. I have chosen the top three most likely people to receive the nomination, and two potential running mates. My list of nominees, in order of likelihood, is as follows.
1) Governor of Minnesota Tim Pawlenty
2) Former Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee
3) Former Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney
For running mates, where the order of their likeliness of being chosen doesn't matter, I have Senator John Thune of South Dakota and Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson of Texas.
Want to know why? Read my essay. By the time you finish, it should have a day or two to wait until you find out if I'm right.
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