No such thing as political science

As he so often is, Chris Matthews was bang on target last week, in his definition (or lack thereof) of Political Science:

I don't think there is such a thing as political science.... I think political science is an oxymoron. I don't know what this science is they keeping talking about.....How you can justify calling yourself a political scientist, when the whole thing is about art and personality and—and smart argument and circumstance?

I second this with firsthand experience because that discord between science and the arts is the primary reason for my proverbial fork in the road: one relies on hard evidence and absolute data, the other does away with factual rigidity by celebrating nuances, interpretations and abstractions – it's the tangible vs. the intangible and they don't ever plan to meet halfway.