No to facebook. If TH begins to require it, then bye bye TH.

According to wikipedia, daily newspapers endorsed Obama over McCain in '08 by a ratio of 296 to 180 in 2008 total circulations 31m versus 12m, respectively, and weeklies by a 111 to 32 ratio. (The dailies endorsing McCain were mostly small papers.) The spread was much wider among magazines and college papers. In '04 Kerry got 208 endorsements to Bush's 189, with total circulations of 21m versus 14m, respectively. Most polls of journalists in the past 2 decades show two to three times as many claiming to lean left than leaning right. The journalists have consistently been about twice as liberal as the public.

Hey, watson199, South Side made a respectful and thoughtful post. You can disagree with his liking Warren, but there's no need to be rude about it. I don't like Warren either, but few of her supporters who show up here post as nicely. Credit where credit is due.

Unfortunately, the MSM would claim that he was mocking her heritage by handing her stereotypical Indian clothing, and would come up with all kinds of one-liners, like, "What's next, a watermelon for President Obama? A sombrero for Justice Sotomayer?" They're clever like that, and they specialize in ridicule.

Right on target, wiseone.

Space limits compressed the above to something very choppy. But the gist is that the social sciences are inherently manipulative and elitist, and conceptualize the people as collectivized farm animals. In classrooms, therapy offices, and other places where social scientists have contact with people, the majority of them will be twisting the arms of the people they talk to with all kinds of psychobabble to dissuade them from conservative views and voting preferences.

As a MA voter, I hope that conservatives in other states will remember what the alternatives are here in MA when they're unhappy about Brown's moderateness. Brown and Warren are running neck-&-neck at present, and Brown wouldn't be where he is today if he weren't a moderate. So you guys elsewhere can carp about Brown, but remember, if it weren't for him, you'd have Martha Coakley in the House right now, another Democrat cut from the same left-wing, feminist, elitist-wonk cloth as Warren. Brown is a stand-up guy and a patriot and someone anyone out there in TH-land would find "real" if you had him over for a barbecue.

York forgot social scientists. The methods of social science necessarily objectify, aggregate, & average (stereotype) human persons. Empiricism is great for generating knowledge about rocks & molecules, but applied to human persons, it reveals only the mechanistic, animal aspects of the human condition, and effaces the creative, spontaneous, free, & moral aspects (even as theorists display these in their theorizing). In human behavior, as in quantum physics, the juicy aspects cancel out in the aggregate. Social sciences grant power to manipulate people (empirical knowledge is power). But their picture of persons is incomplete, and their methods are deeply elitist. The social-science establishment will support Obama. Any surprise here?