{"id":6468,"date":"2013-10-12T09:12:23","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T15:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6468"},"modified":"2013-10-12T09:12:23","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T15:12:23","slug":"the-dwindling-party-of-anger-fear-and-delusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/the-dwindling-party-of-anger-fear-and-delusion\/","title":{"rendered":"The dwindling party of anger, fear, and delusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

[hat tip to Fred Reiner]<\/p>\n

Anger Can Be Power – NYTimes.com<\/a> By THOMAS B. EDSALL<\/a><\/p>\n

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One of the key factors pushing Republicans to extremes, according to Greenberg\u2019s report, is the intensity of animosity toward Obama. This animosity among participants in all six focus groups is reflected in Figure 2, which represents a \u201cword cloud<\/a>\u201d of focus group references to the president, with the size of each word in the cloud proportional to the frequency with which it was used.<\/p>\n

\"Fig.<\/p>\n

Figure 3 represents a second word cloud generated by Greenberg\u2019s data showing which words came up most often in all six focus groups: <\/p>\n

\"Fig. <\/p>\n

Two days after Obama\u2019s re-election, when Republicans lost eight seats but retained their House majority (232 to 200, with three vacancies), Boehner was asked by Diane Sawyer<\/a> on ABC, \u201cYou have said next year that you would repeal the health care vote. That\u2019s still your mission?\u201d Boehner replied: \u201cWell, I think the election changes that. It\u2019s pretty clear that the president was re-elected, Obamacare is the law of the land.<\/strong>\u201d<\/font> <\/p>\n

That same day, Michael O\u2019Brien of NBC News suggested that<\/a> <\/p>\n

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The speaker\u2019s pronouncement, if nothing else, signifies a pivot away from Republicans\u2019 efforts to showcase for conservatives their doggedness in looking to repeal Obamacare.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nearly a year later, on Oct. 6, Boehner admitted that he had been forced to capitulate by constituent pressures on Republican members of the House. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Anger Can Be Power – NYTimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

[hat tip to Fred Reiner] Anger Can Be Power – NYTimes.com By THOMAS B. EDSALL One of the key factors pushing Republicans to extremes, according to Greenberg\u2019s report, is the intensity of animosity toward Obama. This animosity among participants in all six focus groups is reflected in Figure 2, which represents a \u201cword cloud\u201d of … Continue reading The dwindling party of anger, fear, and delusion<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6469,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6468\/revisions\/6469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}