How great was Maddow's football analogy? I would love to see the

[babylonsister]

youtube of that whenever anyone finds one. :)

[MadMaddie]

1. It was pretty good wasn't it! Made perfect sense!

McCain is in deep in his own territory and he keeps outwitting himself and his campaign! I am expecting at least one more major gaffe.....it's coming.....

[babylonsister]

4. Outwitting is too kind! nt

[eshfemme]

2. I'm not into sports at all but I liked it.

Maybe people who are clearer on football can give their more informed opinion of how well a case she made for the analogy. But it seems a pretty nice untraditional breakdown of the race.

[babylonsister]

3. I think fans, and I am one, loved it! And see, she didn't try to

overwhelm anyone with the game of football, but what's happening 'on the ground'. Ha! Very clever, I thought.

[abumbyanyothername]

5. She undersold the analogy.

Politics is even more territorial than football.

In football you often see 100 yard plays. Not usually, but generally more than once a weekend in a full NFL slate.

It will be a lot of elections before you see D.C. go Republican.

And she also should have introduced the concept of territorial polling.

Other than that, I didn't really care for the "red state"/"blue state" hypothesis behind the analogy.

[SeattleGirl]

6. It was great!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Clio the Leo]

7. I found the whole thing very....

... phallic and have been distracted ever since.

[babylonsister]

10. LOL! I'm not sure that was her intention.

:D

[Clio the Leo]

11. nah, probably not. NT

[Clio the Leo]

12. And furthermore.....

and



It's like they're following him around!

[damndude]

8. she just single handedly made my understand how the entire game

of football is even played. now i don't feel so dumb.

[babylonsister]

13. Ha! It's a bit more complicated, but good for you, and GO, GIANTS! nt

[Connie_Corleone]

9. I loved it.

I loved seeing all those red helmets on McCain's side of the field playing defense.