If Facebook “likes” can be trusted as a reliable barometer of taste, Hillary Clinton’s supporters prefer Adele, George Takei, Harry Potter, and The Rachel Maddow Show. Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s supporters are more into Ted Nugent, God’s Not Dead, Adam Sandler, and The Old Farmer’s Almanac. How is this deeply divided nation ever going to agree on such hot-button issues as abortion and immigration if its squabbling citizens cannot even agree on which movies, songs, and TV shows are the best? These and other depressing findings come from an intriguing Wall Street Journal article by Natalie Andrews and Brian McGill called “What You Like Falls On Party Lines.” Andrews and McGill, in turn, took their information directly from Facebook. The popular, scarily powerful social media site keeps close tabs on what its users choose to endorse, it turns out, and the collected data says a lot about...
- 7/19/2016
- by Joe Blevins
- avclub.com
President Obama's approval ratings may have fallen in the latest Gallup poll, but National Journal's Beth Reinhard and Brian McGill say Obama should hang on to hope. "Another president who suffered a recession early in his first term also had, at the same point in his first term, an approval rating hovering in the low 40 percent range -- and President Reagan went on to win a landslide reelection victory the following year," Reinhard and McGill write, warning that Gop excitement over the president's weakness may be premature. "First of all, the approval ratings for Congress and the tea party are falling further faster. (Obama may want to take a cue from Harry Truman, who famously ran against the “Do-Nothing Congress.’’)"...
- 8/9/2011
- by Mark Joyella
- Mediaite - TV
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