From MacKuen, Erikson, and Stimson's classic article "Macropartisanship", American Political Science Review 83(4), pp. 1125-1142
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From MacKuen, Erikson, and Stimson's classic article "Macropartisanship", American Political Science Review 83(4), pp. 1125-1142
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Jude says:
So some really kick-ass two-for-one sales could make the Dems popular again?
HoosierPoli says:
Obama's cruising for the black friday bump.
Jon says:
This is a perfect example of how consumerist society dumbs down the general public.
Hazy Davy says:
"And so, my fellow Americans, our new stimulus plan puts an iPad in every stocking, and an Escalade in every garage."
Voting Solves Nothing says:
I don't like george w. bush, but his stimulus put money in my pocket. Obama's stimulus did not.
evrenseven says:
unrelated, but I'll be expecting a nice write up of the debt commission's initial report tomorrow.
Cryptic ned says:
I zoomed in by 400% and still can't read those letters.
HoosierPoli says:
VotingSolvesNothing: Yes it did. You just didn't notice it because he didn't want you to know about it, so you'd go and spend it as opposed to socking it away. Not to mention all the slightly more abstract, but just as real, ways the stimulus put money in your pocket. Good for the economy, bad for the politics.
But this is an excellent example of voter ignorance, so thanks for the illustration.
pinch says:
Consumer sentiment is kind of the wrong word hear. Tax cuts are nice for businessmen cus it instantly increases their workable budget, they like to be able to plan for every-fucking thing. Same, Healthcare makes a LOT of new considerations for people's budgets.
All in all it makes doing business a bit more complex and, even though the reform may turn out to be the most amazing thing evaaarrr (I'll be witholding judgement). I can absolutely see how people are getting all pissed off going "OMFG, but aam broke NOW!"
A lot of people are suffering pretty bad right now, and they don't want to wait any longer. I do empathize with that, and because of that empathy, I kind of look at the actual political ideological discussion as something of a silly side-show. We all know "centrism" is where ya really wanna be.
eau says:
…and we have a new contender for Best Example of Voter Ignorance!
Nice work, pinch. Take that, VotingSolvesNothing!
pinch says:
thanks for the nice appeal to the man, and I'm not much of a man, I got a bunch of BPA in my system as a child and even developed mammary glands.
samanthab says:
what evrenseven said.
karen marie says:
cryptic ned: if you click on the image it embiggens.
Nathan says:
I just view this as depressing. It means that really, the only thing people care about is the economy, and beyond that, the government can do anything and who cares.