Snapshot of 2016

This article, "In Town-Hall Meeting, Christie Counters Obama on Guns," by Andrew Romano, shows two reasons why Chris Christie is plausibly going to be the next president (and one of those reasons it shows quite inadvertently). They are: (1) he knows how to take positions that veer from dogmatic and stereotypical conservatism but still are conservative to a considerable degree; and (2) liberal journalists and pundits won't be able to help themselves from obnoxiously and irrelevantly focusing on candidate Christie's weight (article's opening words: "By the time Gov. Christie waddled out the door...").