Saturday, November 2, 2024

Block that analogy

Alex Witt on MSNBC a little while ago:

“It is like an SAT question: North Carolina is to Democrats as Lucy is to Charlie Brown’s football. But is a strategy by the Harris campaign going to change all of that?”
I hope so. But first we need to fix the analogy. If North Carolina is what was within reach but then taken away, a proper analogy would go like so:

NC : Democrats :: the football : Charlie Brown

Related reading
All OCA analogy posts (Pinboard)

comments: 4

Fresca said...

I guess it doesn’t really matter, but I also wonder about the ownership of the football – – does Charles Schulz establish that it is Charlie brown’s football?

Michael Leddy said...

Someone might know, but not me. I think I think of it just as "some football."

Sean Crawford said...

I think it's the football of some scientist offstage named Schrödinger.

Michael Leddy said...

Ha! So as long as the ball remains unkicked, we’ll never know?