Comments on: Smells like election season http://rhinocrisy.org/2006/07/smells-like-election-season/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 11:53:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Anonymous http://rhinocrisy.org/2006/07/smells-like-election-season/#comment-1010 Anonymous Thu, 20 Jul 2006 22:44:43 +0000 http://rhinocrisy.org/?p=648#comment-1010 this past election like the last few i chuckled at the sign outside my polling place that prohibited electioneering beyond that point. the site, a senior center, was such an uncontrolled jumble of information and meanings that such a ban while needed and useful was also worth a chuckle because of how aggressively people derive meaning from their surroundings.<br/><br/>it turns out that easy joke i probably shared with a lot of people was verified beyond my imaginings by a couple near-now articles.<br/><br/><a HREF="https://gsbapps.stanford.edu/researchpapers/library/RP1926.pdf" REL="nofollow"><br/>Can Where People Vote Influence How They Vote?</a>  (pdf), and<br/><a HREF="http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?040830crat_atlarge" REL="nofollow">The Unpolitical Animal</a> (summarized <a HREF="http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2006/07/where_you_vote.html" REL="nofollow">here</a>)<br/><br/>la... <br/><br/><a></a><a></a>Posted by<a><b> </b></a><a HREF="http://rhinocrisy.blogspot.com/2006/07/smells-like-election-season.html" REL="nofollow" TITLE="alohaflower at mindspring dot com">hibiscus</a> this past election like the last few i chuckled at the sign outside my polling place that prohibited electioneering beyond that point. the site, a senior center, was such an uncontrolled jumble of information and meanings that such a ban while needed and useful was also worth a chuckle because of how aggressively people derive meaning from their surroundings.

it turns out that easy joke i probably shared with a lot of people was verified beyond my imaginings by a couple near-now articles.


Can Where People Vote Influence How They Vote?  (pdf), and
The Unpolitical Animal (summarized here)

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