Vote 2008 - The Takeaway - Track the Electoral College vote pred. We’ve been looking at the Electoral College prediction maps of the New York Times, Real Clear Politics, Intrade, NPR & the Online Newshour, and many others, and there’s good news for armchair pollsters: Few media prognosticators agree on how the swing states will swing. We’re not playing the guessing game ourselves — the only poll that really matters is the one on November 4th — but we are curious why certain organizations are going against the grain.
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You might as well learn a little about how the art and science of propaganda works, so that you can recognize the techniques as people try to fool your mind with them. You probably already know a lot about this, whether you realize it or not, because politicians pull many of these standard stunts on you every election year, and you have grown immune to some of them. And modern advertising uses a lot of them, too, and you just tune them out.
Nevertheless, let's just do a quick over-view of propaganda techniques. Bear in mind that "propaganda" is not inherently a dirty word — it just usually is. Master these propaganda techniques, and you too will be able to proselytize and promote cult religion and radical politics just like a battle-hardened old-timer. This one is simple, straight-forward, and obvious. Richard M. Wow. And : Institution - Policy Review - End of Dreams, Return of History. International rivalry and American leadership T he world has become normal again.
The years immediately following the end of the Cold War offered a tantalizing glimpse at a new kind of international order, with nations growing together or disappearing altogether, ideological conflicts melting away, cultures intermingling through increasingly free commerce and communications. But that was a mirage, the hopeful anticipation of a liberal, democratic world that wanted to believe the end of the Cold War did not end just one strategic and ideological conflict but all strategic and ideological conflict. People and their leaders longed for “a world transformed.” 1 Today the nations of the West still cling to that vision. Evidence to the contrary — the turn toward autocracy in Russia or the growing military ambitions of China — is either dismissed as a temporary aberration or denied entirely.