In The Political Brain•, Westen mentions that the Republicans are remarkably good at making their values appear to be the values of the majority of Americans when it comes to controversial issues, even though the polls consistently show that the Democratic positions are actually more similar. This is due to two things, Westen says. First, [...]
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My professor told us this story (which I am now going to promptly butcher) about his time on the campaign trail. In 2004, he was going door-to-door campaigning deep in the backwoods of rural Mississippi (or Arkansas, or Louisiana, I forget which, but you get the gist). They were in a particularly poor neighborhood one [...]
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The L.A. Times has an article today titled “Democrats shift approach on abortion.” Here is how it opens.
Sensing an opportunity to impress religious voters — and tip elections — Democrats in Congress and on the campaign trail have begun to adopt some of the language and policy goals of the antiabortion movement.
The rest of the [...]
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According to Mother Jones open-source politics issue, the median political blog reader is a 43-year-old man with a household income of $80,000 and 75 percent of political blog readers are male.
Seventy-five percent of the total political blogosphere audience is male? Because a good portion of the blogs I frequent are feminist blogs written by [...]
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Posted in Democrats, Feminism on June 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Shock and awe. Feminists aren’t all supportive of Hillary just because she’s a woman.
Um, duh.
Because maybe feminism really isn’t all about man-hating sister-solidarity. Maybe it really is about equal treatment of both genders, meaning you judge a person (or a politiian) based on who they are, rather than on their genitals. Imagine that! [...]
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So yes, I’ll admit it. I am not an Obama flag waving 20 something. Nor am I a bra burning Hillary addict. They are both way to liberal for my small pocketbook and both like to infringe on my ever decreasing personal rights.
But yes, Mom, what about the others? Two major news makers and not [...]
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I feel like Barack Obama is getting enough coverage on his own, to the extent that I was trying to not to blog about him, but I can’t resist the crazy lapels of the late 1970s.
Obama is all over the place, so it’s no surprise that people who knew him back in the day are [...]
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And there goes any hope for me ever voting for a Democratic candidate. At least there is one bright light . It’s really going to come down to what I deem the important issues of 2008.
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Posted in Democrats, Framing on January 25, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Speculative political question I am quickly tiring of: Will Obama appeal to blacks?
Not that it’s not a valid question (and maybe it only seems all-pervasive to me because I recently had to lexisnexis through 2 years worth of obama coverage), but I just find something sort of frustrating about this whole is he white enough [...]
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Posted in Democrats, Pop Culture on January 9, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Why Mommy is a Democrat is making the rounds in liberal and not-so-liberal circles for its blatant (albeit adorable) attempts to turn young children into democrats. Let me preface by saying I have never seen this book in real life, however, if the sample pages are any indication (and really, shouldn’t they be, by definition?), [...]
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Posted in Democrats, Libertarians on December 19, 2006 | 1 Comment »
New Republic tells libertarians to fuck off
I don’t blame libertarians for wanting more than the lesser of two evils. But, when your beliefs are wildly unpopular, supporting the lesser of two evils is about the best you can expect.
ouch.
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At the risk of further contributing to a debate I’ve recently come to hate, I can’t help but muse on the whole recent “liberaltarian” conundrum. It’s an issue I feel like I’ve been reading incessantly about since David Boaz at Cato published “The Libertarian Vote” in October, and with Brink Lindsey’s coining of a term, [...]
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