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Sunday, October 26, 2008

Conservative Ideologues Begin to Throw McCain Under the Bus 

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Campaign rally: likely one of the last things over which John McCain will preside.

Sorry, Senator. Let's Salvage What We Can: "There are many ways to lose a presidential election. John McCain is losing in a way that threatens to take the entire Republican Party down with him." — David Frum (Washingto Post op-ed)

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Palin going rogue? 

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Palin allies report rising campaign tension: "Four Republicans close to Palin said she has decided increasingly to disregard the advice of the former Bush aides tasked to handle her, creating occasionally tense situations as she travels the country with them. Those Palin supporters, inside the campaign and out, said Palin blames her handlers for a botched rollout and a tarnished public image — even as others in McCain's camp blame the pick of the relatively inexperienced Alaska governor, and her public performance, for McCain's decline."
(Politico)

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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

What Makes People Vote Republican? 

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Jonathan Haidt: "What makes people vote Republican? Why in particular do working class and rural Americans usually vote for pro-business Republicans when their economic interests would seem better served by Democratic policies? We psychologists have been examining the origins of ideology ever since Hitler sent us Germany's best psychologists, and we long ago reported that strict parenting and a variety of personal insecurities work together to turn people against liberalism, diversity, and progress. But now that we can map the brains, genes, and unconscious attitudes of conservatives, we have refined our diagnosis: conservatism is a partially heritable personality trait that predisposes some people to be cognitively inflexible, fond of hierarchy, and inordinately afraid of uncertainty, change, and death. People vote Republican because Republicans offer "moral clarity"—a simple vision of good and evil that activates deep seated fears in much of the electorate. Democrats, in contrast, appeal to reason with their long-winded explorations of policy options for a complex world."
[Jonathan Haidt is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Virginia, where he does research on morality and emotion and how they vary across cultures. He is the author of The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom.] (The Edge)

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Saturday, August 30, 2008

Grand Old Book Party 

St. Paul, MN - Bush/McCain: Does This Look Lik...
What to read about John McCain and the future of the GOP: "By the time party conventions roll around, we're told, many Americans are just tuning in to the presidential race. If you're just gearing up for the GOP Convention, here's a rundown of the best literature on John McCain and the future of the Republican Party." (Slate)


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