Because of the Republicans' sheer extremism, it may work to re-elect the president by a narrow margin in 2012 -- but not to rekindle the enthusiasm of the groups that elected him in 2008 as a force for believable change.
Mr. Martel said he wanted to "push the limits of the believable until you are forced to make a leap of faith".
But the underlying lament, that Bright has been censored out by fashion "as people became cynical of moral and political certainties" is too marbled with nostalgia to be believable.Bright was a political force, but he never held high office, so he was rather like a midfielder who forever sets up the strikers: assists don't count as much as goals.
But their collective obsession with the summer of 1974 those hopeful, memorable months at camp is a little too forced to be believable.
By lobbing a serious round of allegations at the greatest cyclist of all time, Lance Armstrong, we are forced to consider potentially believable charges coming from an untrustworthy source.
The voyage may be allegorical; its sense may be that we are all at sea, driven along incomprehensibly by market forces; but the best allegories are believable as stories too, and this one isn't.
Verdi didn't seize on the lurid matter of "Trovatore" because he found it believable; rather, he relished the extremity of the situation, which forced his characters to react in extreme ways.
Many national estimation teams were dissatisfied with the resulting trends, so the attention turned to models that would still allow the force of infection to vary, but which would ensure slower and more believable changes in incidence over time.
This is believable, as the result would probably be an inconclusive election like February's that forced the unnatural union over which Mr Letta presides.
A slightly forced, "I'm sorry for what I did," followed by a more believable, "I really mean it, I need to make different choices".
