A Close Analysis of Voters

Some people have a hard time distinguishing between a Republican and Obama. “To put them in perspective,” the author David Sedaris wrote in Shouts and Murmurs shortly before the election of 2008, “I think of being on an airplane. The flight attendant comes down the aisle with her food cart and, eventually, parks it beside my seat. ‘Can I interest you in the chicken?’ she asks. ‘Or would you prefer the platter of shit with bits of broken glass in it?’ ”