https://www.dailykos.com/user/Offbrand RachelMaddow/rss/index.xml News Community Action Copyright 2005 - Steal what you want Sun, 26 Jan 2020 14:26:50 +0000 Sun, 26 Jan 2020 14:26:50 +0000 Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) Daily Kos rss@dailykos.com (Daily Kos) https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/16/1162357/-Fox-News-Death-Tax-Hysteria-Part-VI-wait-no-Part-IX-or-is-it-I-ve-lost-count <p>How many different ways can Fox News instill false outrage into their viewership over the estate tax? &nbsp;As usual, it's all bullshit, but <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/11/16/ranchers-farmers-brace-for-death-tax-impact/">it's got new life</a> today, having been folded into the "fiscal cliff" discussion.</p> rss@dailykos.com (Offbrand RachelMaddow) deathtax EstateTax Fox News FoxNews Taxes _1162357 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 19:55:23 +0000 https://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/3/1155099/-Voter-Shaming-A-Tale-of-Two-Strategies <p>Both the right and the left are guilt-tripping voters, counting on peer pressure to get out the vote, but each side is going about it a little differently, and with wildly different results. The basic idea, and the psychology behind it, is described in “<a href="http://www.apsanet.org/imgtest/apsrfeb08gerberetal.pdf">Social Pressure and Voter Turnout: Evidence from a Large-Scale Field Experiment</a>,” a research study authored by Alan Gerber and Donald Green of Yale, and Christopher Larimer of the University of Northern Iowa. &nbsp;The crux is simple: people are more likely to vote when they think they’re not keeping up with their neighbors’ voting trends. If everyone knows the Joneses are consistently voting, the Joneses’ neighbors are more likely to vote too.</p> <p>So how has this played out in the 2012 presidential election?</p> rss@dailykos.com (Offbrand RachelMaddow) AmericansforLimitedGovernment Elections MoveOn voterdata Voters _1155099 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 03:56:27 +0000