JDG wrote:
Of course your found it intriguing. I am sure it is a very comforting
bedtime story that Democrats are smart and Republicans stupid, and
that if everyone had access to the truth, then we'd all be Democrats.
I don't think its a matter of smart or stupid as much as a tendency to
filter information such that it supports an established POV. Do you have a
critique of the poll
[http://astro.berkeley.edu/~aleroy/Report10_21_04.pdf] that establishes
that its results are biased or wrong? The above post implies that it is
complete fiction.
From tha analysis of the poll:
"Another possible explanation is that Bush supporters cling to these
beliefs because they are necessary for
their support for the decision to go to war with Iraq. Asked whether the
US should have gone to war with
Iraq if US intelligence had concluded that Iraq was not making WMD or
providing support to al Qaeda,
58% of Bush supporters said the US should not have, and 61% assume that in
this case the president
would not have. To support the president and to accept that he took the US
to war based on mistaken
assumptions is difficult to bear, especially in light of the continuing
costs in terms of lives and money.
Apparently, to avoid this cognitive dissonance, Bush supporters suppress
awareness of unsettling
information."
--
Doug
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