The Big Sort : marketing

This Campaign Has Gone Positively 19th Century

Bill Bishop — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 13:08:00 GMT

This election is getting out of hand. For one rally, I read, the locals rigged up six horses to a wagon big enough to carry a pipe organ and a glee club with 40 singers. Was this a prop for another Barack Obama mega-rally? Or maybe a Sarah Palin revival?...(read more)

Enough Already With Political Categories Like "White Women"

Bill Bishop — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:05:00 GMT

Let's get something straight. There is no "women's vote." Women vote, of course. But reporters write about the "voting bloc" of white women as if it has meaning. It doesn't. Elections aren't about demography. They are about ways of life. Marketing people...(read more)