Political wordings

Faster than a speeding ballot. Sweeping primaries in a single bound. Look up in the sky: It’s a gimmick; it’s a cliffhanger; it’s punditocracy!

20/20 vision (n):
the media’s tendency to blow small issues totally out of proportion for the sake of news show fodder.

between Barack and a hard place (n):
the sphere in which undecided democrats linger to contemplate the electability of candidates.

I heart Huckabee (n):
a bad movie and campaign.

it takes a village idiot (phr):
a Washington proverb.

meet Romneys (n):
The persistent desire to poke Mitt’s handsome sons on Facebook.

mock the vote (n):
when people too embarrassed to admit they’re clueless about the voting process make awkward jokes to remain elusive.

over the Hillary (n):
undecided voter syndrome wherein the desire to see a woman in the White House is overrun by one’s dislike for Hillary.

pundIt girl (n):
the token female analyst who sits at the table with Wolf Blitzer and co.

scamdidate (n):
an unviable aspirant who just confuses the public (see: Ron Paul).

super delegetsome (n):
when powerful insiders use their influence to score dates with campaign managers and candidates’ daughters