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I would much rather read

Emma Zahn — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 16:56:40 +0000

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I would much rather read blogs than watch them but sometimes visuals convey much more than words. If you can spare 15 minutes, watch this segment from bloggingheads.tv to see what effect Huckabee's religious language has on Josh Cohen. He is obviously uncomfortable with the subject. Glen Loury points out that Huckabee talks like what he is, a Baptist minister.

Deconstructing Huckabees loaves and fishes

On the left, I think it's

Devon — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 17:08:00 +0000

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On the left, I think it's true that there is less of an openness to 'dog whistles.' But maybe it's in part just that nobody is whistling to them?

For my part, listening to Obama's Iowa speech a second time, I thought there were more substantive references to racial justice issues than were immediately evident - that is one time I feel I've been whistled to. (That and the fact that John Edwards says he is following me on Twitter -I must figure out why they think that is a valuable thing to do.)

The left seems always to be looking for signs that you're not one of them....

I think this is true in two other important respects, at least for some parts of the left that I've worked in (where I would have been eviscerated for suggesting outreach to sympathetic social conservatives). There, I think, there is a generally untested assumption that we all agree about a long list of agenda items, and I've seen a lot of discomfort in these institutions with engaging in substantive political discussion seemingly for fear of exposing yourself as apostate on some ideals or positions. Second, I have heard people say (without the caustic gloss I add) that if you have to change the way you articulate your political beliefs to reach out to a wider audience, doing so constitutes selling out. The consequence is a whole lot of not talking, for fear of being or becoming 'not one of us.'

What is that all about? Did

Emma Zahn — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 11:39:20 +0000

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What is that all about? Did Huckabee actually make some anti-Catholic remarks?

I experienced the same

PseudoCyAnts — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 09:20:58 +0000

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I experienced the same problem tonight, but was able to work around it by skipping the www. and just using http://tpmcafe.com.

Bets that distribution is

Tom Wright — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:49:30 +0000

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Bets that distribution is congruent with liberals and atheists, too. Omaha and Sioux City in the West, and the college towns in the East.

It appears many Catholics in

artappraiser — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:17:12 +0000

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It appears many Catholics in Iowa don't need a decoder ring and recognize the tribe which is being straightforwardly conjured. This does not surprise me in the least.

One unavoidable fact about

nascardaughter — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 00:05:30 +0000

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One unavoidable fact about modern presidential campaigns is that candidates are always trying to make subtle winks to constituent groups that tacitly say "I'm one of you." I feel I've been on the receiving end of some of those

If you feel like saying, I'd be interested in hearing more about winks you've been the target of.

I was thinking, while reading some of your recent posts actually, that in general the left doesn't seem to be as receptive to such tactics as the right does... The left seems always to be looking for signs that you're not one of them, while the right seems more willing to accept the subtle wink?

If you experience a problem

PseudoCyAnts — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:54:38 +0000

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If you experience a problem like this, go to a whois look-up website and get the IP address (numerical). A fairly easy one to deal with is DomainTools. Enter in the domain name without http:// or www. in this case it would just be tpmcafe.com. Then scroll down to
Server Data -> IP Address
Copy that number, and paste it directly into your browser's navigation address.

If the site opens, it's probably a nameserver problem. Often this happens with a server change, because it takes a day or two for the new IP address to propagate across all nameservers.

In this instance, my recollection is that this server is a different one than the last time I checked, but that was a while ago. (maybe over a year)

There was some sort of

PseudoCyAnts — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 14:42:19 +0000

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There was some sort of problem with TPM Cafe, which wasn't occurring with The Talking Points Memo, and other related sites. Very intermittent connections. It's fixed now. Seemed like a problem with server's internal DNS records, but that's just a guess, and may be too tech an explanation anyway.

Reporting in to say I haven't

artappraiser — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 08:10:27 +0000

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Reporting in to say I haven't had any problems since and am mainly using Vista IE. Perhaps it was a problem with them doing something to the site. I must kvetch that it really aggravates me how the tradition here is not to make an announcement on problems. It wasn't just TPMCafe, it was also the TPM main page that was having problems, on the night before the big primary. Oh well, some people are still mad about the end of the Sopranos making them think there was something wrong with their TV....