Dump Obama reflects an abandonment of the failed strategy of lesser-evilist voting.
What I'd like to suggest is keeping it as a primary meme (perfect for a bumper sticker), but nevertheless subsuming it under the broader flag of anti-lesser-evilism. Not that you would call it that. You'd be better off still calling it the Dump Obama movement, than calling it the Dump Lesser Evilism Movement. Eventually, you'd have to come up with a new name, especially after Obama is history. For now, though, the Dump Obama meme is a fine proxy for the Dump Lesser Evilism Voting meme.
As happy as I am to see game theory applied to politics (I'v called for this myself, many times) and, in particular, it being used against stupid and unproductive lesser-evilist voting, I can't say that I'm happy about the lack of organization matching such diaries and comments.
I'm finding the meta-analysis of media failures in the netroots to be lacking in something. We do an excellent job of focusing on the particularly delinquent and malfeasant prominent media repeat offenders like Broder, Brooks, Dowd or Fox News. We have excellent media critics like Digby, Glenn Greenwald and of course Media Matters who are able to incisively tear apart flawed journalism and note the broader storylines the media are adhering to without evidence. But we're not thinking enough at the systemic level of how the media is organized, and how that system itself is contributing to the negative results we see. After all, if we replace the current occupants of Versailles on the Potomac, how will we prevent their replacements from being just as bad eventually? Joe Klein must have been a sincere and well meaning liberal at some point.
Here I will attempt to apply game theory to the media, in hopes of finding a better understanding for how it all went so wrong, and continues to do so.
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