Wednesday, May 09, 2012

Flip-flopping


NPR Piece on "Flip-flopping" and Partisan Psychology: Why Do People Choose Political Loyalties Over Facts?


This is kind of funny, and insightful into our ways of behaving.
Eg.  Two-thirds of Republicans believe there is something President Obama can do about gas prices, and two-thirds of Democrats believe he can't...  6 years ago, Three-quarters of Democrats believed there was something President Bush could do about gas prices and three-quarters of Republicans believed there was nothing he could do...