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Chart Of The Day - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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Whereas 68 percent of white voters told Research 2000 they were
definitely or probably planning to vote in 2010, just 33 percent of
black voters did. Although whites have almost always turned out at
greater rates than blacks, the racial gap has never been nearly that large, and indeed was at its smallest-ever levels in 2008 with Barack Obama on the ballot.
Who Voted in 2008? - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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highlights: 64% of the 204 million voting-age Americans voted, up about
6 million in number and 4 percentage points from 2004. Historically
underrepresented groups made gains in this election. Non-whites made
up more than 90% of the increase in the total number of voters. The
authors conclude that had non-whites voted at the same percentage as
whites, more than 5 million more votes would have been cast in 2008.
The study, by Douglas Hess and Jody Herman, finds that had voters under
30 voted at the same rates as their counterparts over 30, more than 7
million additional ballots would have been cast.
Western Men Are Doomed - Opinionator Blog - NYTimes.com
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David Brooks: Asians place emphasis on context while Westerners place more emphasis on individuals. This seems like a gross generalization but it is robustly supported by hundreds and hundreds of studies. Richard Nisbett’s book, “The Geography of Thought” summarizes some of the evidence.
If you show Americans a fish tank, they’ll talk about the biggest fish in the tank. If you show Asians a tank they will make, on average, 60 percent more references to the context and the features of the scene. Western parents tend to emphasize nouns and categories when teaching their kids, Korean parents tend to emphasize verbs and relationships. If you show Americans a picture of a chicken, a cow and grass, they will lump the chicken and the cow, because they are both animals. Asians are more likely to lump the cow and the grass because cows eat grass. They have a relationship.
The mode of thought more common in Asia is better suited to the complex networks that make up the modern world. The contextual, associational style is simply more valid. The linear style we’ve inherited from the Greeks is less adaptive toward the modern age. I think the West may be doomed.
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David Brooks: I haven’t even mentioned gender differences yet. I think the same things I’ve said about Asians can be said about women as compared to men.
I don’t know if you’ve had a chance to read this stuff as part of your book research, but my understanding is that the cognitive processing of male and female brains is mostly the same except for in one area: social cognition. Women, on average, pick up more social signals.
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Face Of The Day - The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan
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Phil Wolf, owner of Wolf Automotive used car dealership, stands in
front of a billboard on his auto lot on November 21, 2009 in Wheat
Ridge, Colorado. Wolf paid $2,500 to have the billboard painted, and it
has sparked controversy since it was put up the day before. Wolf, 57,
said the dealership received more than a thousand calls from throughout
the U.S. and Canada in a single day, both in support and against the
sign. 'We've had death threats. We had people call and say they were
going to firebomb the place last night,' he said, adding that local
police provided overnight security outside the dealership because of
the threats. Wolf, a supporter of the 'birther' movement, questions
President Obama's citizenship. 'We've got to recall our country, the
election,' he said. This guy (Obama), is illegal.' He also blamed the
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Glenn Beck - Salon.com
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Anti-Defamation League
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but unlike the DHS report, the ADL named names, and fingered Beck as the figure most responsible for the unhinging of the right.
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Look Out, North Carolina | Talking Points Memo
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You couldn't make this up in a million years. As part of his one-man effort to combat the looming Islamo-imperial threat from the likes of the Muslim Brotherhood, Dave Gaubatz, author of Muslim Mafia, is planning a one-month "investigative counterterrorism project in the Sunni mosques of North Carolina," as our Justin Elliott aptly puts it.
Matthew Yglesias » Right-Wing Unleashes Racism on Rep Cao
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For his trouble, he’s being treated to some interesting tweets:
RT @RightBloggerPat: @AnhJosephCao You Bastard piece of shit fuck! GO BACK TO Saigon, South Vietnam where you fucking BELONG GOOK! #TCOT
There’s also a whole bunch of folks who’ve decided that it’d be hilarious to start referring to Rep. Cao as “Mao” because, you see, they’re both
responsible for the deaths of millionsAsians. Also this.I think the conservative movement is going to continue to struggle in a decreasingly white American.
Secular Right » White men can’t be progressive?
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If Matt wants less educated candidates who have small vocabularies, then his concern is warranted. Otherwise, liberals have no problem at the commanding heights of education & intelligence. In fact, from what I have read and heard the Democratic electorate is often said to place more of a premium on educational and intellectual qualifications, or at least the appearance, than the Republican electorate.
Matthew Yglesias » Effective Leadership
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And looking that over, it seems to me that a province-by-province study to “determine which regions are being managed effectively by local leaders and which require international help” would be a good idea right here in the USA. Someone can finally do something about, say, Mississippi. It persistently lags on human development indexes, its governor is dogged by corruption allegations, and election results simply break down along ethnic lines and re-enforce entrenched divisions.
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Matthew Yglesias » Max Boot’s Anti-Desegregationism
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Searching around in the book you can tell that Boot is a cut above your standard-issue conservative since he has the good sense to recognize that the entire “activism” controversy was spawned not in some rights of the accused case, but rather in the Supreme Court’s decision to rule that school segregation was illegal in the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education decision.
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But of course Boot, being a contemporary conservative rather than a 1950s or 60s conservative, isn’t a white supremacist at all. He even goes so far as to concede that “the result is one we can all applaud.” He’s just more upset by the prospects of courts overturning the demographically expressed will of a herrenvolk democracy that denied its black citizens the right to vote in order to better be able to oppress them with the systematic application of terrorist violence than he is by the apartheid regime itself.
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Telling Revelation | Talking Points Memo
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originalist philosophy
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Justice Scalia
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Matthew Yglesias » Race in America and Europe
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But I think that you’ll find if you look at Europe through the eyes of the liberal agenda that while the German left has certainly been more successful than the American left at securing universal health care, it’s been much less successful at promoting a tolerant, integrated, multicultural society. And allowing for the errors implicit in making any kind of sweeping generalization, I’d say that’s pretty generally the case across Europe. This Swiss People’s Party campaign poster would, I think, make Jesse Helms blush. And I’m not even sure which of the Northern League posters from Italy is the most egregious.
Michael Steele Doesn’t Race-Bait, Except When He Does « The Washington Independent
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The first is the charge that “leading Democrats” called Steele an “Uncle Tom,” which is just false, unless the term is extended to cover liberal bloggers. The second, more directly false charge is that Steele was “called a slave by Steny Hoyer,” that “no one came running” to defend him. What happened was that Hoyer, in the final month of the campaign, characterized Steele’s record as “a career of slavishly supporting the Republican Party.”
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