Mr. Christie, who has governed New Jersey for less than a year and a half, is more popular with some party activists than in his own state, where his poll ratings are dropping and show him getting clobbered in a hypothetical presidential matchup against Mr. Obama.
A rescue effort is mounted -- but can the rescuers arrive in time, and can they act effectively without violating the Noninterference Protocol, which has governed human relations with less advanced cultures up to now? McDevitt takes his time moving all the players in this drama into position.
He has governed New York (ruled it, really) less as a standard elected official, a grubby pol beset by grubbier pols, than as a Roman consul or a Roman emperor — one of the better emperors, too: a basically public-spirited type like Augustus or Vespasian, as opposed to a Nero or a Caligula.
And in age-old questions of identities that have haunted the country — Kurdish and Turkish, secular and religious — the party has governed at a time when those divisions seem less pronounced and possibly less relevant to a modernizing country.
Mr. Chretien has governed since 1993.
The party has governed Yucatán since 1929.
The Liberal party, which had governed the country less than quarter of a century earlier, was reduced to 9% of the vote, and just 12 seats.
Similarly, when I called Ben Wattenberg and told him that I should have governed more like a President and less like a prime minister, I didn't mean that I hadn't governed like a President.
The Democratic Party of Japan, created less than 15 years ago, last month thrashed the Liberal Democrats, who had governed Japan for most of the past 54 years.
