Comments on: Of Foxes, Chickens, and Voter Demographics http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2008/05/14/of-foxes-chickens-and-voter-demographics/ If you're not angry with me yet, just keep reading. Sun, 05 Jul 2009 00:01:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Jeff Barnett http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2008/05/14/of-foxes-chickens-and-voter-demographics/comment-page-1/#comment-54829 Jeff Barnett Fri, 16 May 2008 12:02:49 +0000 http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2008/05/15/of-foxes-chickens-and-voter-demographics/#comment-54829 Jason, I certainly don't deny the effectiveness of it. Your example of the "gas tax holiday" and blue collar Americans is spot on. Politics is increasingly less about principle and more about deceiving anyone easily deceived. Perhaps it's always been that way and I was just one of the deceived. Jason, I certainly don’t deny the effectiveness of it. Your example of the “gas tax holiday” and blue collar Americans is spot on. Politics is increasingly less about principle and more about deceiving anyone easily deceived. Perhaps it’s always been that way and I was just one of the deceived.

]]> By: Jason Yates http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2008/05/14/of-foxes-chickens-and-voter-demographics/comment-page-1/#comment-54815 Jason Yates Fri, 16 May 2008 03:03:34 +0000 http://midnight.hushedcasket.com/2008/05/15/of-foxes-chickens-and-voter-demographics/#comment-54815 I believe Clinton’s point is to make Obama and his supporters seem elitist. Coinciding with the popular meme; that blue-collar America is the the real America the so called Heartland. Now I do despise the crass characterizations used in demographically branding voters as much as you. But you cannot ignore there effectiveness or accuracy, nor the ability of politicians to exploit them and seemingly initiate conditioned responses among voters. Not to just pick on blue-collar America, but say “gas tax refund” and the so called blue-collar American salivates not knowing of the refunds utter pointlessness. Each group has there specific note for a conditioned response and politicians are virtuosos. I believe Clinton’s point is to make Obama and his supporters seem elitist. Coinciding with the popular meme; that blue-collar America is the the real America the so called Heartland.

Now I do despise the crass characterizations used in demographically branding voters as much as you. But you cannot ignore there effectiveness or accuracy, nor the ability of politicians to exploit them and seemingly initiate conditioned responses among voters. Not to just pick on blue-collar America, but say “gas tax refund” and the so called blue-collar American salivates not knowing of the refunds utter pointlessness. Each group has there specific note for a conditioned response and politicians are virtuosos.

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