A Starry-Eyed Look at the 2012 Republican Field

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	A Starry-Eyed Look at the 2012 Republican Field

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2-24-2009 12:02 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/d37e59f4-f2e3-4c09-a570-bbee7f90ac97/9EC4CB66-9B2B-4D41-9304-B2A0182A13FF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/02/starry-eyed-look-at-2012-republican.html" href="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/02/starry-eyed-look-at-2012-republican.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.fivethirtyeight.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/02/starry-eyed-look-at-2012-republican.html"><DIV>A long time ago in a galaxy <A href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/11/13/32723/157/324/405461" linkindex="582">not too far away</A>, I introduced something called the "Planetary Model of Primary Politics".    It is basically just a fancy way of noting that there are generally two dimensions by which candidates position themselves in Presidential primaries.  One is along an <SPAN>ideological axis</SPAN> (liberal/conservative).  The other is what I then called an <SPAN>institutional axis</SPAN> -- whether a candidate seeks to work within existing institutions or to reform them.</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/02/starry-eyed-look-at-2012-republican.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.fivethirtyeight.com/img/51F6D527-826B-48BB-8CB7-D2443F250605" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/02/starry-eyed-look-at-2012-republican.html">That is, it looks like a "galaxy" of ideological space, with the candidates representing the equivalent of stars or planets.  Depending how fanciful we want to be, we can imagine the planets exerting gravitational forces upon one another, seeking to carve out their own safe space in the universe while at the same time stealing matter (voters) from their opponents.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/9EC4CB66-9B2B-4D41-9304-B2A0182A13FF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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