In so assisting the forces of rightwing populism, it could even decisively do for the Lib Dem surge.
The one motif that unites the son's story with the father's is that both have to choose between a pair of possible women and don't quite ever, decisively, do it.
Yet the contradictions accumulating in American strategy — committing to Maliki but not committing to him; allying with Syria and Iran but not allying with them; arming the Sunni rebels in Syria but not arming them decisively — do require more of an accounting than just, "Forget it, Jake; it's the Middle East".
There are counterarguments - that winning in and of itself doesn't prove who's better and even that winning decisively doesn't mean that the same team would do so again if the teams were to meet next week.
Selecting Sarah Palin as his running mate after meeting her twice and without having had her vetted to any significant extent is a prime example of the McCain act-quickly-and-decisively; don't-think-about-it-much approach.
However, in a crucial moment when the league had to act decisively, it did that - and that is a decision sport can build on.
Mr. Clinton won the White House twice by winning suburban voters decisively, as did Mr. Bush's father in 1988.
Nonetheless, no other Foreign Service officer ever shaped American foreign policy so decisively or did so much to define the broader public debate over America's world role.
Wiseman shows how that discourse is the bedrock of the museum — the cultural bedrock of consensus and common interest that perpetuates the museum as an institution as decisively as do the other bureaucratic and infrastructural processes that he documents.
"Our country is hungry for a new approach to political life that will 'change the political weather' as decisively as did the administrations of 1945 and 1979 … No such thing is yet on offer for 2015".
CSFB added that, "So while it may be gratifying to see the Boards of Royal Dutch and Shell act decisively, this does not cure the problem by itself".
