Thank you for that.
Zerobama’s symbol was done by a talented expert; not merely a logo designer, but someone acquainted with the meaning of this sort of thing to others who “get it.”
Creepy. For me, it means that almost nothing about his campaign and internal vetting (by his various handlers) has been left to chance.
Axelrod is emerging as a person of special interest to me. He came from a New York leftwing family; his father was a lefty (which meant that he was nuts) and a professional psychologist (so he was doubly nuts). The father apparently suffered from depression and commited suicide when David was 19.
So there’s a hole in David’s psyche where a father should be just as there is with Obama (who was abandoned by his father).
In many ways, Axelrod is the man behind the man; if, God forbid, zero wins, Axelrod will surely have an influential press/communications job at the White House. He may advise zero in other ways, too.
I was interested to read that Axelrod was instrumental in getting Eliot Spitzer elected as governor of New York. I’m not surprised.
It would be interesting to see if any NLP techniques as described in the post above found their way into any of the other candidates handled by Axelrod.
Also, according to many online articles about him, Axelrod has another company that performs “spin” for major corporations. He keeps that client list top secret.