Posts from ‘October, 2008’

Mouffe sent me this MoveOn.org video. She sent one to Sam Samster, too.

Using the Blame Game to Get Out the Vote - The Caucus Blog - NYT 103008:
Nothing motivates a young person like humiliation — say, the humiliation of being called out by name to all of America for the outcome of the presidential race.
MoveOn.org uses just that idea in an unusual video that is personalized and [...]

Paul Krugman: When Consumers Capitulate - NYT 103108:
Some background: one of the high points of the semester, if you’re a teacher of introductory macroeconomics, comes when you explain how individual virtue can be public vice, how attempts by consumers to do the right thing by saving more can leave everyone worse off. The point is [...]

The Plumber Shows Up - The Caucus Blog - NYT 103008:
Mr. Wurzelbacher, who told CNN that the campaign contacted him immediately afterward and dispatched a car to rush him to Mr. McCain’s next stop, has so far been a man of few words.
“All right guys, I didn’t prepare anything,’’ Mr. Wurzelbacher said in Sandusky on [...]

Barack Obama’s American Stories, American Solutions: 30 Minute Special.