I’m listening to Bartok. The Miraculous Mandarin, a recording by the St. Louis Symphony, Leonard Slatkin conducting.
Earlier I was listening to Morning Edition on NPR. A report caught my attention about—you guessed it—why Mitt Romney lost. Or, more to the point, why he almost won. It had to do with something I find utterly baffling about the American political consciousness. I don’t know, maybe it’s true everywhere.
Basically, that during most of the campaign Romney ran on issues and did little to “let people know him personally.” This, according to the report, was the cause of his low approval numbers. …