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minx.cc - 12/3/2008
Interesting Article on the Psychological Roots of Obamamania
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Seriously. Okay, that's not the article, that's a link to a blog with some really great photography of the abandoned Danvers State insane asylum. Love the tunnels connecting all the main buildings. My dick just rolled for initiative. Here's the...
openleft.com - 12/3/2008
A Mass Psychological Change
— openleft.com — What worries me about this moment is not whether Barack Obama will do good, progressive things. As... I've said ad nauseum, I think he will. And what worries me is not debates on the merits of particular policy - let's have those on the merits, not on ... (more) A Mass Psychological Change

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The Psychological Roots of Obamamania
Hyscience — ... (HT - Ace) on how the president-elect tapped into a powerful - and only recently studied - human emotion called "elevation." ...

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