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In the night of Tuesday 6 to Wednesday 7, I was a guest at an electiom
night result party where I basked in my newly-found repute of
all-knowing pundit on American politics and prognosticator
"extraordinaire" of the Obama win.
Little did my audience know that two facts I garnered from the
American press helped me forecast Obama's reelection with such
cavalier certainty in the waning days of the campaign.
I got both facts on Friday, November 2:
1) The article by Asawin Suebsaeng on Mother Jones titled "7
Prognosticators With Good News for Nervous Obama Fans"
(Source: www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/11/election-predictors-obama-romney#13523723902701&action=collapse_widget&id=3096479);
and
2) What Republican strategist and super PAC "sherpa" Karl Rove told
Michael Leahy and Sean Sullivan of the Washington Post about the
impact of Hurricane Sandy on the election outcome:
"'It's the October surprise,' Rove said of Sandy. 'For once, the
October surprise was a real surprise.'"
(Source: m.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2012/11/02/hurricane-sandy-helped-obama-politically-karl-rove-says/).
What I find baffling, beyond the election result, is that Obamania
hasn't abated this side of the Third World boonies.
Somehow, Congolese--and by and large Africans for that matter--still
misconstrue Obama as their next-door "bro," not as the "Planetarch" at
the helm of the most formidable imperial machine the world has ever
seen.
Try as I might, I couldn't make my audience shed the blinders of that
"racialist" misconception.
In any event, our election night result party was a long, very long
party--with wine and beers.
By the time Obama made his victory speech, I think it was already
close to mid-morning here.
Later on, I found out there several such parties in Kinshasa!
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PHOTO CREDITS: Via: The Washington Post
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