Politics Fear

The Only Thing We Have to Fear

Conor Grennan | Posted 03.13.2012

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Conor Grennan

Candidates are not going to inspire us because there's simply no incentive to inspire us. The nature of the game is to get us to the polling station. If the best way to do that is fear tactics, then that's their motivating technique.

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Does Fear Rule Your Life?

Ed and Deb Shapiro | Posted 11.17.2011

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Ed and Deb Shapiro

As fear spreads, it reassures us that we are not alone in this unfounded fear, that we are right to believe the enemy is the "other."

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Fear, Psychology, and American Voting Behavior

Dan Agin | Posted 05.25.2011

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Dan Agin

Predicting American voting behavior is a game played by pollsters, politicians, and professional gamblers, and between now and the Congressional elect...

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