American Views Abroad

 
Bush's Victory: Second Thoughts provides the best explanation yet of why he got re-elected. It discusses how the election had more to do with emotions and attitudes than facts, how voting for the Republicans made average voters 'feel superior', how fundamental ideas about masculinity, particularly when connected to fear, played so well for the Republicans and how the 'horse-race coverage' the media gave the campaign all led to the defeat of the Democracts. From The New York Review of Books online site at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17788.
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