Comments on: 47: A Prime Political Number for Romney and America

By: Aron Hsiao

Aron Hsiao — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 01:20:00 +0000

I agree with your position—the critical inequality (temporal, political, economic, and otherwise) of votes and voters in this system is one of its continuing flaws. I did want to give a sourced Sarah Palin quote, however:

“We sometimes get the feeling that this administration hates true Americans… the type of Americans who came here and built this country, not the type who sat back on welfare handouts. The Obama administration keeps rewarding these same types of people while average Americans are told that their country is no longer Christian.” (Sarah Palin, August 20th 2011, Fox News Real Talk)

Not exactly the same as Romney’s assertion, but not entirely different, either. I suspect that the difference sounds larger for those on the right than it does for those on the left (and I understand and acknowledge precisely the related selection mechanism that you discuss).

By: Gary Alan Fine

Gary Alan Fine — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:51:00 +0000

Note the seal of the Dominion of Virginia, a paean to terrorism (with a bare-breasted Amazon). See what we miss when we do not look.

By: Jeffrey Goldfarb

Jeffrey Goldfarb — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:32:00 +0000

Informed by Fine, I find it striking how the Romney clip reveals the penetration of bad sociology into the American corporate elite.
Is it our (sociologists) fault, or is it confirmation that a proper sociology
education needs to be required in higher education?
The idea of a national campaign and election process is indeed very appealing.