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7366 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed's latest -- rank: 1000

I think it's time for a moratorium on the Obama thing. Listmom

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 6 17:49:55 PDT 2008

7367 [lbo-talk] more Bartels -- rank: 1000

On May 6, 2008, at 7:35 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > This is about people having math and economics anxiety, > and that rendering them susceptible to Big Lie techniques. Not exactly: "In this case, however, the results are starkly different: better-informed respondents were no more or less likely than less-informed respondents to favor repealing the estate tax. Thus, there seems to be no reason to imagine that more information would produce a noticeably different distribution of pu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 6 16:57:46 PDT 2008

7368 [lbo-talk] more Bartels -- rank: 1000

On May 6, 2008, at 5:47 PM, Carrol Cox wrote: > This is not evidence of any deficiency in the people; it is evidence > that elections are a bad way to run a society. Wanna put that up for a vote? So what do you suggest instead? Town meetings? Soviets? Direct action?

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 6 14:56:38 PDT 2008

7369 [lbo-talk] even more Bartels -- rank: 1000

[from further along in "Homer Gets A Tax Cut," which I hadn't read in a few years] Unenlightened Self-Interest [...] The results presented in the first column of Table 4 suggest that attitudes regarding the tax burden borne by the rich have a modest positive effect on support for repealing the inheritance tax that is, people who think the rich pay too much in federal income taxes are somewhat more likely to favor repeal, while those who think the rich pay too little are somewhat l ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 6 14:41:34 PDT 2008

7370 [lbo-talk] more Bartels -- rank: 1000

More Bartels: "Homer [Simpson] Gets a Tax Cut" <http://www.princeton.edu/~bartels/homer.pdf> The results of my analysis suggest that most Americans support tax cuts not because they are indifferent to economic inequality, but because they largely fail to connect inequality and public policy. Three out of every four people say that the difference in incomes between rich people and poor people has increased in the past 20 years, and most of them add that that is a bad thing bu ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 6 14:30:09 PDT 2008

7371 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed's latest -- rank: 1000

On May 6, 2008, at 4:46 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: > On Tue, 6 May 2008, Doug Henwood wrote: > >> I told Bartels, after he was on my radio show, that his work made me >> despair of the possibilities for self-rule. > > You shouldn't though, at least not on this basis. My favorite: [from Aachen and Bartels, "Blind Retrospection," 2004] > Droughts and Floods, 1896-2000 > > Having examined one especially colorful instance of blind > retrospection [a serie ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 6 14:12:45 PDT 2008

7372 [lbo-talk] FP's intellectuals -- rank: 1000

On May 6, 2008, at 4:31 PM, John E. Norem wrote: > How could you not write in Doug? You've got one of my votes Doug. Aww thanks. I wrote myself in too! That's 2 votes.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 6 13:44:23 PDT 2008

7373 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed's latest -- rank: 1000

On May 6, 2008, at 4:19 PM, Charles Brown wrote: > Eventually, objectively racist, unconsciously racist, structutrually > racist is all that's left. Wow.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 6 13:44:05 PDT 2008

7374 [lbo-talk] Obama: let my Teamsters go! -- rank: 1000

On May 6, 2008, at 4:19 PM, Jerry Monaco wrote: > If this were a principled stand on Obama's part it would be > supportable. As > the Sparts say: "The state out of the union movement!" Yeah, I actually have a lot of sympathy with this position. That said, Jimmy Hoffa is revolting, as that "sombrero" passage I posted yesterday shows. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 6 13:28:13 PDT 2008

7375 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed's latest -- rank: 1000

On May 5, 2008, at 11:31 PM, T. Bosco wrote: > the reasoning capabilities of voters Ever read Larry Bartels on this topic? <http://www.princeton.edu/~bartels/papers.htm> You may never think the same of the reasoning capabilities of voters if you do. E.g.: <http://www.princeton.edu/~bartels/thinking.pdf> "It Feels Like We're Thinking" (with Christopher Aachen) > Abstract > > The familiar image of rational electoral choice has voters weighing > the com- > p ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 6 13:26:46 PDT 2008

7376 [lbo-talk] Barack Obama's Brand As The "Un-Politican" Must Be Promoted, Says The Marketing Dr -- rank: 1000

From: xxx <xxx at drcpublicrelations.com> Date: May 6, 2008 1:06:07 PM EDT To: dhenwood <dhenwood at panix.com> Subject: Barack Obama's Brand As The "Un-Politican" Must Be Promoted, Says The Marketing Dr Barack Obama's Brand As The "Un-Politician" Must Be Promoted Otherwise He Is "Un-Electable," Says The Marketing Doctor Marketing expert Dr. John Tantillo warns that Obama is in crisis and that he needs to push his brand in order to win nomination and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 6 13:09:28 PDT 2008

7377 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed's latest -- rank: 1000

On May 6, 2008, at 11:31 AM, Carrol Cox wrote: > And we can't affect the election. You always say that, but it's not true. Or its truth turns on your definition of "us." If "we" are Marxists and other far leftists, no, not much. But some 10-20% of the pop would embrace roughly social democratic and anti-imperialist politics. I'm happy to be a critical part of that "us." And 10-20% of the pop can surely affect the election. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 6 08:45:20 PDT 2008

7378 [lbo-talk] New study: Private equity sucks (for investors) -- rank: 1000

On May 5, 2008, at 11:37 PM, Shane Mage wrote: > But (btw) why an index fund? why not BRK.B? Diversification. Warren B isn't immortal, either.

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue May 6 04:39:22 PDT 2008

7379 [lbo-talk] more on the Teamsters -- rank: 1000

[from the WSJ article on Obama & the Teamsters] Since endorsing Sen. Obama on Feb. 20, Mr. Hoffa has sought to be an ambassador for the candidate to his membership, which is 81% male and 76% white. He often talks to Sen. Obama, offering advice and tactics. He's sent out rounds of automated phone calls to Teamsters members for Sen. Obama in key states. In April, he joined an Obama teleconference with reporters when the campaign needed someone to tout the senator's record on trade. On th ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 5 18:47:12 PDT 2008

7380 [lbo-talk] Adolph Reed's latest -- rank: 1000

On May 5, 2008, at 7:39 PM, Michael Pollak wrote: >> The support is always at 110% enthusiasm, with grand claims of >> historical transformation should he win, or about the wonderful >> "movement" he's spawned that transcends a mere candidacy. Maybe >> you've had a different experience. > > And maybe you're selectively remembering? "Always" and "never > anyone" are > strong words that are very unlike you. "Always 110% enthus ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Mon May 5 18:42:47 PDT 2008