Partly Facetious: Election 2013 would be the litmus test

"Listen with your hearts not your minds."
"Whatever do you mean?"
"Vote with your hearts and not your mind."
"What in the world are you going on about?"
"Well I reckon election 2013 would be the litmus test: have our people learnt to vote with their hearts or with their minds? And lets be honest our hearts are with the Bhuttos though our mind is doing a somersault what with the energy crisis, the inflationary pressures, the increase in the number of jobless, the..."
"I disagree."
"I think you are talking with your heart as well, your black anti-PPP heart and..."
"Hey, would you back off for a bit. All I was going to say was that I think elections maybe held in 2012."
"Ah, but there is an 'if' there!"
"Indeed, if Yousaf Raza Gilani is disqualified. The PPP simply does not wish to deal with their rather demanding coalition partners for a vote of confidence for another prime minister."
"Right, but people may not vote with their hearts."
"Look at all the by election results."
"OK but Imran Khan did not allow his party to stand for by elections."
"Imran must desist from thinking like a cricketer and begin to think like a politician."
"What's the difference: they are both in the game to win and to make some money."
"Right, but a cricketer reckons a vacuum can be used to one's advantage, you know if a player is sanctioned then a new player maybe better than the old, while politics abhors a vacuum and if you leave for a bit then you might as well leave for a longer period."
"That's not fair, you are looking at cricket from a macro point of view while you are looking at politicians from a micro point of view."
"And why not if it proves my theory!"
"But survey after survey..."
"I don't lend much credence to surveys. Remember John Major was supposed to lose as per the survey before elections and he won. Besides don't forget our surveys are less accurate, the urban areas where the people are educated vote markedly differently then in rural areas where a survey can hardly be expected to be credible."
"Indeed, so now what?"
"Wait and see, and let's see which pundit is correct."