Transfer that same computational power to ascertaining votes. That is, using the intersection of sets applied to voting districts across the nation, it is straightforward enough to construct what issues should be declared and what sides to be taken to glean, that is harvest, the required amount of votes to win the district. As some insightful FR attendee once suggested call it "vote farming."
Karl Rove is a bright fellow and is the virtual guru of vote farming. "They" know how you will vote depending on the poster presented before you. And that poster is constructed by virtue of set theory.
But is that how we want to determine the managers of our nation, the politicians? That is, if we are a set of juveniles who want an unabridged allowance to indulge our whims as juveniles, do we want parents who will grant us every indulgence?
Karl Rove has made himself important through the mathematical logic of vote farming, declaring no resort whatsoever to conscious human responsibilities. This is obvious by the total denial of any recent political candidate to declare the necessity of citizen sacrifice, discipline, or responsibility; and that includes GWB.
In historical terms Karl Rove is the same Machiavellian manipulator as the Left. Indeed that is the essential definition of the Left.
Once understood the extraordinary self-centeredness of the Washington DC elites becomes crystal clear. These really really are people who are not interested in our mature development as responsible citizens, but rather those interested in their own self importance. We have said this succinctly through the tagline below; and through the Tea Party will repeat it over and over while there is still hope for human dignity.
Johnny Suntrade
And this is precisely why Rove and all the rest of the professional manipulator are so upset with the outcome of the Castle - O'Donnell race: they failed miserably.
In fact, for at least the past 15 years the left has seen its ability to manipulate the electorate deteriorate with every death (or placement on life support) of another big city newspaper. Their very mission is to prove (mostly to themselves) that they still wield the kind of influence that can get even the slimiest Democrat elected or re-elected. Their success in getting a thoroughly unqualified "community organizer" elected President of the United States should have gratified them, but they know that that "victory" was a cheap, hollow one because the race had been ceded by a tired GOP before it even began. The joy of the left was short lived as they looked around and saw no glimmers of the schaedenfreud they longed for.
So now the left finds itself enjoying(?) the company of Karl Rove and Charles Krauthammer, and before them, Kathleen Parker and Peggy Noonan, as they all see their legendary influence dissipate like a morning fog.
Screw them all, and hallalejuah, the American citizenry is waking up at last. Thank God for the new media of talk radio, 24-hour cable news, and the internet.