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3766 [lbo-talk] Fwd: Tea Party: less than meets the eye -- rank: 190

... that is... Begin forwarded message: > From: Marv Gandall <marvgand at gmail.com> > Date: November 8, 2010 3:39:24 PM EST ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Mon Nov 8 12:43:06 PST 2010

3767 [lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye -- rank: 190

On 2010-11-08, at 8:04 AM, Wojtek S wrote: > Marv: "only last month you were puzzled and dismayed that the Obama > administration wasn't "bashing" its enemies on the right," > > [WS:] Yes, indeed, and I am still puzzled by it. However, I do not assume > that these are stupid ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Mon Nov 8 07:57:23 PST 2010

3768 [lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye -- rank: 190

Yup, when you disagree with someone about the Obama administration you want facts (not opinions or interpretations) when you express your interpretations or opinions you use universalizing essentialist and idealist categories - including the use of words like quintessential - to tar the American electorate and any number of left social movements. Furthermore ...

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Author:	Alan Rudy
Date:	Mon Nov 8 07:30:13 PST 2010

3769 [lbo-talk] Sacrificial rationality -- rank: 190

The thing is, Marv, Wojtek wants to be able to use Malinowski's formulation of myth/ritual rationality in a transhistorically idealist fashion - asserting that a mode of rationality explicitly formulated to understand complex, integrated and coherent pre-modern cultures can non-problematically apply to modern advance industrial voting psychology - while ...

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Author:	Alan Rudy
Date:	Mon Nov 8 07:02:19 PST 2010

3770 [lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye -- rank: 190

Marv: "only last month you were puzzled and dismayed that the Obama administration wasn't "bashing" its enemies on the right," [WS:] Yes, indeed, and I am still puzzled by it. However, I do not assume that these are stupid or treacherous, evil people - as some on the more loony fringes ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Mon Nov 8 05:04:40 PST 2010

3771 [lbo-talk] Jacobin contest -- rank: 190

... 1. Joanna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bhaskar Sunkara" <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Sun Nov 7 21:41:14 PST 2010

3772 [lbo-talk] Jacobin contest -- rank: 190

... 1. Joanna ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bhaskar Sunkara" <bhaskar.sunkara at gmail.com> To: "lbo-talk" <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Sun Nov 7 21:21:47 PST 2010

3773 [lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye -- rank: 190

... 7, 2010 at 2:13 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote: > Chuck: "Obama had a majority in the Senate ...

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Author:	Alan Rudy
Date:	Sun Nov 7 11:51:10 PST 2010

3774 [lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye -- rank: 190

If I recall correctly, FDR's big margin in 1936 was due to first-time voters, not to swing voters. That has usually been the case in elections which represented a real change in the electorate. Changing peoples' minds is not any more important in electoral than in mass politics. It ...

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Author:	Carrol Cox
Date:	Sun Nov 7 05:24:13 PST 2010

3775 [lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye -- rank: 190

On 2010-11-06, at 10:13 PM, Wojtek S wrote: > Again, I would like to underscore two points. First, elections are decided > by "swing voters" not by core supporters. The core supporters are not going > to switch sides if they are unhappy with their own party performance. It's true ...

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Author:	Marv Gandall
Date:	Sun Nov 7 05:13:24 PST 2010

3776 [lbo-talk] Changing emails -- rank: 190

My old email the.typo.boy at gmail.com won't be a good way to reach me ...

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Author:	Gar Lipow
Date:	Sat Nov 6 19:43:02 PDT 2010

3777 [lbo-talk] Changing email of sub -- rank: 190

... at my email gar dot lipow AT the same service (gmail) and dot plus the first three letters of commercial. I ...

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Author:	Gar Lipow
Date:	Sat Nov 6 19:37:32 PDT 2010

3778 [lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye -- rank: 190

Marv - I provided that explanation by reference to "magic" or "ritualistic" rationality. By its virtue, sacking the party in power is ritualistic behavior that is not affected by rational policy arguments. So I do not think that there was much Democrats could do to change it, short of performing a miracle ...

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Author:	Wojtek S
Date:	Sat Nov 6 19:13:47 PDT 2010

3779 [lbo-talk] Tea Party: less than meets the eye -- rank: 190

----- Original Message ----- From: "Wojtek S" <wsoko52 at gmail.com> [WS:] Do you have any empirical evidence of this ...

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Author:	123hop at comcast.net
Date:	Sat Nov 6 11:07:07 PDT 2010

3780 [lbo-talk] Galbraith on Obama's economic policy -- rank: 190

... 6, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Marv Gandall <marvgand at gmail.com> wrote: > James K. Galbraith teaches at UT-Austin and ...

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Author:	Andy
Date:	Sat Nov 6 10:43:57 PDT 2010