Edsall Plays the Race Card

January 21, 2010

(Guest post by Greg Forster)

Well, that didn’t take long.

Just one day after the election, Thomas Edsall argues that Scott Brown won – and Americans generally are rejecting health care socializiation – because white people are just so darn racist.

No! It’s true! Because he read a book that says ethnically diverse neighborhoods have more social tension than ethnically homogeneous neighborhoods! The book had numbers in it and everything! That proves it!

Update: Edsall’s not alone. Howard Fineman, editor of Newsweek, thinks pickup trucks are racist.

Apparently not everyone’s ideological blinders have been loosened by this experience.

What do you suppose it will take to get through to these people?

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Posted by Greg Forster

You Can’t Go Home Again

January 20, 2010

(Guest post by Greg Forster)

Coakley didn’t just lose Massachusetts, she failed to carry Hyannis Port. The Kennedys’ home town voted for Scott Brown.

Get out your magic lamps and flying carpets, because it’s a whole new world!

Update: It’s even bigger than that. Brown won every single prescinct in Barnstable, where Hyannis Port is located, racking up 61 percent of the vote in the town at large.

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Posted by Greg Forster

The Scott Heard Round the World, Even in the Bunker

January 20, 2010

(Guest Post by Matthew Ladner)

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Posted by matthewladner