Comments on: Plagiarism Ain’t Playing http://donklephant.com/2008/02/21/plagiarism-aint-playing/ Big Teeth. Huge Ass. Surprisingly Reasonable. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:39:23 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Rich Horton http://donklephant.com/2008/02/21/plagiarism-aint-playing/comment-page-1/#comment-391758 Rich Horton Fri, 22 Feb 2008 19:58:32 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2008/02/21/plagiarism-aint-playing/#comment-391758 The Political Scientist in me wonders if crowd reactions act as a primer on something like a "people meter". For example, if you used the same segment but put in the noise of people cheering would the "people meter" react differently than if they hear booing. This could matter as I'm not sure you can assume the audience attending such an event represents a random sample in any meaningful sense. Metholodogy....THE FUN STUFF??? The Political Scientist in me wonders if crowd reactions act as a primer on something like a “people meter”. For example, if you used the same segment but put in the noise of people cheering would the “people meter” react differently than if they hear booing. This could matter as I’m not sure you can assume the audience attending such an event represents a random sample in any meaningful sense.

Metholodogy….THE FUN STUFF???

]]> By: Joshua http://donklephant.com/2008/02/21/plagiarism-aint-playing/comment-page-1/#comment-391724 Joshua Fri, 22 Feb 2008 06:38:43 +0000 http://donklephant.com/2008/02/21/plagiarism-aint-playing/#comment-391724 "Change you can Xerox?" Better than "change you can stick a fork in". What I think we're seeing (and I see a few other blogs concur) is the beginning of Hillary's exit strategy. She's beaten and she knows it, which is why she didn't exactly pull out all the stops in tonight's debate. Now her goal seems to be to pull out gracefully and live to (maybe) try again in 2012. Of course, if this is the case, one wonders how enthusiastically she will get behind Obama's general election campaign. “Change you can Xerox?” Better than “change you can stick a fork in”.

What I think we’re seeing (and I see a few other blogs concur) is the beginning of Hillary’s exit strategy. She’s beaten and she knows it, which is why she didn’t exactly pull out all the stops in tonight’s debate. Now her goal seems to be to pull out gracefully and live to (maybe) try again in 2012. Of course, if this is the case, one wonders how enthusiastically she will get behind Obama’s general election campaign.

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