I’m no chess grandmaster. Yet, I’ve long noticed that the liberal arts folks who’ve never touched a chess board think differently.
Concept#1: to win the game, you must weaken your opponent, not simply promote your own pieces. Small victories are crucial, impose losses on your opponent and they accumulate, even if it means sacrificing one of your own pieces.
A. In the POTUS primaries, it is largely meaningless to discuss alternative candidates as long as it is clear that the front-runner is coasting to victory after victory on his way to the nomination.
B. Before the “party membership” gets a chance to decide who their preferred nominee is ... this frontrunner must be defeated. Only then is the contest opened up to a legitimate competition among alternatives. First task: defeat the frontrunner!
example: Bob Dole: lost Alaska, skipped LA, won IA 26 to 23, lost NH 27 to 26, 2nd in DEL, 2nd in AZ. He recovered to be nominated. It was very close to knocking Dole out of the race, but not enough. The opposition was too split up to realize that job #1 was to bury Dole.
Here are Romney’s defeats in 2008 and 2012.
2008 Iowa, 2nd to Huckabee
2008 NH, 2nd to McCain
lost FLA. knocked out soon after.
2012, tie in IA, lost western NH, but swept the rest of state, lost SC to NEWT, lost CO MO MN to RS, tie in Maine with Paul. That was close to damaging MITT, but not nearly enough.
C. FOR 2016, the bottom line is: MITT & BUSH MUST LOSE IA NH SC FLA. Any candidate that can do that in one of those state, I’m for it. If Walker & Cruz do not compete in NH, there is no sense supporting them there! If somebody cannot win SC, they are useless to our cause there! This is a state-by-state contest.
D. If this sites turns into Cruz & Walker headquarters, I will hafta ask, “what state?” If they write off NH & ME that leaves Rand Paul as the only alternative there.
E. The grassroots of Lincoln County Maine participated in a meaningful manner. They organized, got their voters to the caucus ... and elected a slate of delegates for RS, Newt and RonPaul: Mitt got only about 25% of the delegates. That’s a meaningful event as opposed to the pundits on the web who go on and on in the ether, but never land in a particular spot on the ground.
“Metacognitive skills are important in chess. Children can review their games to see what mistakes have been made. In this way, students can improve their strategy and fine-tune their critical thinking skills.”
http://lessonplanspage.com/mathchessproblemsolving28-htm/
Perhaps one of you wordsmiths can put this idea into an articulate explanation.
Let me tell you the only primary in 2012 with a motivated voter base and a huge turn out.......SC....and it was won by a guy who never even so much as let out a little peep about the other Republicans.........
This “weaken your opponent “crap doesn’t apply - because in a primary season, the real opponent is the other side - NOT the other players on your team. The best way to win is to fight the other team better than anyone else on your team is fighting the other team.
Sadly Newt forgot that after SC. It was down hill from there, for Newt, and for turnouts in every single state.....down down down. There was only one real primary last time - and none of those idiots figured it out.
This reminds me.
I still remember the below make believe Hollywood quality 2012 POTUS campaign video made in 2011 starring Palin as the uber American 'any-day-now will announce' candidate(which she months earlier told FNC that she decided she wouldn't do it) .
This is the stuff that made many Palinistas here org.asim over in their fantasies 2011.
Check out the quality of this well made and executed Palin video and tell me she wasn't making believe she was running . So many suckers so little time.
Sarah Palin 2011-08-18 - Iowa Passion video( August 18, 2011) classic fantasy movie