1.0 link 52893 <![CDATA[Winning Hearts and Minds: Why Rational Appeals Are Irrational If Your Goal is Winning Elections]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/drew-westen/winning-hearts-and-minds-_b_52893.html Behind every campaign lies a vision of mind -- often implicit, rarely articulated, and generally invisible to the naked eye. Traces of that vision can be seen in everything a campaign does or doesn't do.

The vision of mind that has captured the imagination of Democratic campaign strategists for much of the last 40 years -- a dispassionate mind that makes decisions by weighing the evidence and reasoning to the most valid conclusions -- bears no relation to how the...

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