Martin O’Malley’s Presidential Strategy: Try, Try, Try Again

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4. Everyone has intellectual and emotional filters:

They see what they want to see, hear what they want to hear, believe what they want to believe; and nothing else gets through. The problem is worse for some than it is for others, but it is a human tendency.

In terms of candidates, one has to see both their weaknesses and their strengths, and then choose on that basis. If you say that your candidate has no weaknesses and other people's candidates have only weaknesses, objectivity becomes impossible.

It is tempting to fixate on one statement or action and forget the rest, and it is tempting to make each relative item into an absolute.

One must be attuned to nuance, and that isn't easy. I just hope it doesn't take into the next presidential election for people to appreciate what O'Malley has to offer.

I do think though that he is starting to grow on people.