Posts Tagged Tea Party
Policy and Polarization
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Free Speech on April 18th, 2010
Numbers cruncher Nate Silver took a look at the recent New York Times poll of people who consider themselves supporters of the Tea Party movement, and noted that media habits were the most salient predictor of such support. According to Silver, “Tea-partiers are disproportionately attached to, and perhaps influenced by, FOX News. And they are [...]
Continue reading...Power to the People
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Public Policy and Governance on February 21st, 2010
Back in the wild and woolly Sixties, “Power to the People” was a slogan often shouted at sit-ins and the other disruptive gatherings that characterized those tumultuous times. We hear similar chants today from those attending “tea party” events. Reporters covering the various factions of so-called tea partiers tell us that there really is no [...]
Continue reading...The Sad Demise of the GOP?
Posted by Sheila Kennedy in Random Blogging on January 16th, 2010
I was an active, committed Republican for 35 years. I worked in a Republican city administration; I ran for Congress as a Republican, and I was “mainstream” enough to win a four-person primary. That was in 1980. Over the years, the GOP drifed ever further from the principles that had attracted me. A principled concern with limiting the authority [...]
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