yeah, what she said
Oct. 28th, 2006 03:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luciabFrom Weetabix' diary on D'land:
I’ve always believed that the Republicans run their campaigns like a war, while the Democrats run their campaigns like a bake sale, sort of relying upon the fact that people will just “do the right thing”. Which I’m sure they would on equal playing fields, but the competitor is not following those rules, which means that you have to adjust your strategy. I admire the Republicans for some of their research and correlations. Psychological profiling seems to offend folks because we all want to believe that we’re all precious snowflakes, individual and unique, but in truth, we are creatures of habit, and our personalities have commonalities. For instance, the analyst talked about buying patterns between Republicans and Democrats. Democrats are more likely to drive Subarus and Volvos, while Republicans are more likely to drive Lincolns and (and this is where I clutched the steering wheel of my Chrysler with abject dread and got ready to swallow back a mouthful of vomit) trucks. Note that there are certainly truck-driving Democrat outliers (Esteban, for instance) but they are looking at trends. They don’t need to necessarily understand why the two are linked (that’s psychology, not statistics) but it does add something valuable to their arsenal. Meanwhile, the Democrats are studying the song list of their Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits CDs, trying to pick their next theme song.
The rest of the entry is at: http://weetabix.diaryland.com/flavaflav.html The rest of the entry is not specifically related to this but she's a good writer.
I’ve always believed that the Republicans run their campaigns like a war, while the Democrats run their campaigns like a bake sale, sort of relying upon the fact that people will just “do the right thing”. Which I’m sure they would on equal playing fields, but the competitor is not following those rules, which means that you have to adjust your strategy. I admire the Republicans for some of their research and correlations. Psychological profiling seems to offend folks because we all want to believe that we’re all precious snowflakes, individual and unique, but in truth, we are creatures of habit, and our personalities have commonalities. For instance, the analyst talked about buying patterns between Republicans and Democrats. Democrats are more likely to drive Subarus and Volvos, while Republicans are more likely to drive Lincolns and (and this is where I clutched the steering wheel of my Chrysler with abject dread and got ready to swallow back a mouthful of vomit) trucks. Note that there are certainly truck-driving Democrat outliers (Esteban, for instance) but they are looking at trends. They don’t need to necessarily understand why the two are linked (that’s psychology, not statistics) but it does add something valuable to their arsenal. Meanwhile, the Democrats are studying the song list of their Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits CDs, trying to pick their next theme song.
The rest of the entry is at: http://weetabix.diaryland.com/flavaflav.html The rest of the entry is not specifically related to this but she's a good writer.
