C@29: What that tells you is the relative distances between the mindsets of the parties.

Agree about the “shockingly offensive epithet” (although my characterization – once I found out what it meant – was childish and unserious.)

But, just to postcript my previous statements, to the degree that there exists a real and definable distance between the party apparatus and the political candidates, one is inclined to exercise a degree of circumspection in generalizing the space occupied by the relative mindsets. Certainly this was true for Clinton.

Obama confronts a different challenge in the context of a business sector – financial services – that not only performed with marginal appreciation for the technical demands of their discipline, but full-throated contempt for the legal code. “Triangulating” within that context of overt criminal behavior (IMO) will be difficult, if not ill-advised.