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	<title>Comments on: How Much Detail Should a Presidential Candidate Spill? Your Answer Depends on Your Brain</title>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Oct 2012 18:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>At this point I&#039;d be happy if Romney and Ryan would just stop making stuff up and stop changing thei position every five minutes.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>At this point I&#8217;d be happy if Romney and Ryan would just stop making stuff up and stop changing thei position every five minutes.</p>
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		<title>By: MarkB</title>
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		<dc:creator>MarkB</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:14:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>My parents were high school graduates - a policeman and a housewife. Both thought Adlai Stevenson was the best presidential candidate of their lives. He obviously didn&#039;t talk over everyone&#039;s head.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>My parents were high school graduates &#8211; a policeman and a housewife. Both thought Adlai Stevenson was the best presidential candidate of their lives. He obviously didn&#8217;t talk over everyone&#8217;s head.</p>
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		<title>By: julianpenrod</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2012/10/19/how-much-detail-should-a-presidential-candidate-spill-your-answer-depends-on-your-brain/#comment-2332</link>
		<dc:creator>julianpenrod</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 22:41:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Leave aside the implication that the average voter chooses their president based not on provable policy agendas but on perceptions of their &quot;character&quot;, based on equally as misleading and non informative sources.

     At least as important, if not more so, is that there is still a plurality, if not a majority, who actually believe that answers to questions they ask of candidates are truthful.  There are no Democratic voters who can trutfully say their candidate ever answered more than half their wants.  And none of them can state their candidate held true even to what few promises they appeared to pursue.  Republican voters are never truly dissatisfied because many if not most tend to make enough that they buy their &quot;rights&quot;, they don&#039;t need an untrustworthy politician to promise them anything.  What&#039;s more, in the recent past, Democrats have been almost more Republican than Republicans.

     Basically, about the only question that really matters, that is true for any candidate, is, &quot;What do you intend to blame to explain away breaking your promises to &#039;rank and file&#039; constituents?&quot;

     As an aside, notice the illustration at the top of the article, the insistence on peppering it with tiny squares like pixels.  The paszt decade or more has seen an emphasis on subliminal graphic representations, obvios by occurring where they have no place.  The arcing shape often called a &quot;swoosh&quot; has been seen in logos, for example, from Vytorin, Dulcolax, Ryder trucks, Sunbeam appliances, Hilton Hotels, Vitacost, MSP, Evex, Gateway Energy Services, Pace, WorldNet, Presentation Media, Inc.  Even Good Housekeeping altered its seal to reesemble a &quot;swoosh&quot;.

     In keeping with the universal introduction of digtal pixellation into braodcasting, emphasis has been placed on representing scenes broken into blocks.  Commercials for Starkist Tuna, Kleenex, Simply Saline, Raymor &amp; Flanagan, Jos. A. Bank,  the lead in for &quot;$#*!&quot; My Dad Says&quot;, ads for &quot;Touch&quot;, &quot;New Year&#039;s Eve&quot; and &quot;Person of Interest&quot;, the backdrops for The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Dr. Oz, Dr. Drew, &quot;Insider&quot;, the banner for &quot;UFO Iconoclast&quot;, and, now, the illustration in this article.  Subliminal imagery abounds, the majority of graphical presentation fitting into only a few categories.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Leave aside the implication that the average voter chooses their president based not on provable policy agendas but on perceptions of their &#8220;character&#8221;, based on equally as misleading and non informative sources.</p>
<p>     At least as important, if not more so, is that there is still a plurality, if not a majority, who actually believe that answers to questions they ask of candidates are truthful.  There are no Democratic voters who can trutfully say their candidate ever answered more than half their wants.  And none of them can state their candidate held true even to what few promises they appeared to pursue.  Republican voters are never truly dissatisfied because many if not most tend to make enough that they buy their &#8220;rights&#8221;, they don&#8217;t need an untrustworthy politician to promise them anything.  What&#8217;s more, in the recent past, Democrats have been almost more Republican than Republicans.</p>
<p>     Basically, about the only question that really matters, that is true for any candidate, is, &#8220;What do you intend to blame to explain away breaking your promises to &#8216;rank and file&#8217; constituents?&#8221;</p>
<p>     As an aside, notice the illustration at the top of the article, the insistence on peppering it with tiny squares like pixels.  The paszt decade or more has seen an emphasis on subliminal graphic representations, obvios by occurring where they have no place.  The arcing shape often called a &#8220;swoosh&#8221; has been seen in logos, for example, from Vytorin, Dulcolax, Ryder trucks, Sunbeam appliances, Hilton Hotels, Vitacost, MSP, Evex, Gateway Energy Services, Pace, WorldNet, Presentation Media, Inc.  Even Good Housekeeping altered its seal to reesemble a &#8220;swoosh&#8221;.</p>
<p>     In keeping with the universal introduction of digtal pixellation into braodcasting, emphasis has been placed on representing scenes broken into blocks.  Commercials for Starkist Tuna, Kleenex, Simply Saline, Raymor &amp; Flanagan, Jos. A. Bank,  the lead in for &#8220;$#*!&#8221; My Dad Says&#8221;, ads for &#8220;Touch&#8221;, &#8220;New Year&#8217;s Eve&#8221; and &#8220;Person of Interest&#8221;, the backdrops for The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Dr. Oz, Dr. Drew, &#8220;Insider&#8221;, the banner for &#8220;UFO Iconoclast&#8221;, and, now, the illustration in this article.  Subliminal imagery abounds, the majority of graphical presentation fitting into only a few categories.</p>
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		<title>By: Julie Sedivy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2012/10/19/how-much-detail-should-a-presidential-candidate-spill-your-answer-depends-on-your-brain/#comment-2331</link>
		<dc:creator>Julie Sedivy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And, a related op-ed piece by Steven Sloman and Phil Fernbach just went live over at the NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/opinion/sunday/why-partisans-cant-explain-their-views.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And, a related op-ed piece by Steven Sloman and Phil Fernbach just went live over at the NY Times:<br />
<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/opinion/sunday/why-partisans-cant-explain-their-views.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/opinion/sunday/why-partisans-cant-explain-their-views.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Julie Sedivy</title>
		<link>http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2012/10/19/how-much-detail-should-a-presidential-candidate-spill-your-answer-depends-on-your-brain/#comment-2330</link>
		<dc:creator>Julie Sedivy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Oct 2012 20:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>An update: In this post, I wrote: &quot;There&#039;s a bit of distance between bubbles in bandages and the effects of tax cuts on the economy, and no one knows if people have the same tendency for overconfidence in those two types of situations.&quot; I spoke too soon. Phil Fernbach kindly sent me a paper that is soon to be published, in which he and his colleagues have indeed found that people are often overconfident about their understanding of policy—and that becoming aware of the gap between what they think they understand and what they actually do understand can lead to more moderate political positions. You can download that paper &quot;Political extremism is supported by an illusion of understanding&quot;:
https://sites.google.com/site/philfernbachswebpage/publications</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>An update: In this post, I wrote: &#8220;There&#8217;s a bit of distance between bubbles in bandages and the effects of tax cuts on the economy, and no one knows if people have the same tendency for overconfidence in those two types of situations.&#8221; I spoke too soon. Phil Fernbach kindly sent me a paper that is soon to be published, in which he and his colleagues have indeed found that people are often overconfident about their understanding of policy—and that becoming aware of the gap between what they think they understand and what they actually do understand can lead to more moderate political positions. You can download that paper &#8220;Political extremism is supported by an illusion of understanding&#8221;:<br />
<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/philfernbachswebpage/publications" rel="nofollow">https://sites.google.com/site/philfernbachswebpage/publications</a></p>
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