2012 U.S. Presidential Election

[Lemur]

And that art would be? Marketing?

I don't mean "art" as in a comparison to Mozart or Picasso; rather, in the same sense that war is sometimes referred to as "art," since it cannot be boiled down into a science (with predictable, repeatable hypotheses and testing). While there are some truisms in politics, seems to me that a lot of it is unpredictable and difficult to quantify. Hence the obscenely high wages paid to the consultants who claim they can boil it down to numbers. And just as predictably, how often those consultants are proven wrong (but still want to get paid). So yeah, on an art/science axis, I think politics falls into the touchy-feely realm more than STEM.