PREFACE
1. Steve Hargreaves, “Big Oil’s money problem,” CNNMoney.com, December 2, 2008; http://money.cnn.com/2008/12/01/news/economy/oil_profits_outlook/?postversion=2008120206.
2. Alex Koppelman, “Carville: Dean’s Leadership Rumsfeldian,” The War Room, Salon, November 15, 2006.
3. http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00430470/343858/, accessed 12/8/08.
4. http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00431569/336278/.
5. Ibid.
INTRODUCTION
1. John W. Dean, “A Question-and-Answer Session with Thomas B. Edsall, Author of Building Red America,” FindLaw, March 9, 2007.
2. “Clinton’s Final Days: The Pump Don’t Work ’Cause the Vandals Took the Handles,” Hotline, January 26, 2001; Bob Ewegen, “Mean-Spirited Exit by Democrats,” Denver Post, January 29, 2001.
3. Deborah Orin, “Bush Won’t Go After White House Vandals—But Staff Is Cataloging Damage,” New York Post, January 26, 2001.
4. Ibid.
5. David Goldstein, “GSA Says There’s No Truth to White House Vandal Scandal,” Seattle Times, May 18, 2001; Jake Siewert, “Who Got Trashed?”, The Washington Post, May 27, 2008; Kerry Lauerman and Alicia Montgomery, “The White House vandal scandal that wasn’t: How the incoming Bush team nudge-nudged a credulous press corps into swallowing a trashy Clinton story,” Salon.com, May 31, 2001.
6. Jimmy Orr, “No practical jokes for Obama says Bush White House,” Christian Science Monitor, 1/15/09, http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/01/15/no-practical-jokes-for-obama-says-bush-white-house/, accessed 2/3/09.
CHAPTER 1
1. Jennifer Agiesta, “Behind the Numbers: Trust in GOP Reaches Record Low,” The Washington Post, December 18, 2008.
2. Iraq, BarackObama.com, www.barackobama.com/issues/iraq/index.php, accessed 12/5/08.
3. “Bush Meets with Disaster Relief Task Force in D.C.,” Fox News, September 1, 2005.
4. Eric Lipton, “Billions Later, Plan to Remake the Coast Guard Fleet Stumbles,” New York Times, December 8, 2006.
5. “Ships That Don’t Dare Sail,” New York Times, December 14, 2006.
6. David Savage, “It’s Time to Finish Inquiry into Cisneros, Counsel Told,” Los Angeles Times, April 11, 2003; http://articles.latimes.com/2003/apr/11/nation/na-cisneros11, accessed 2/1/08.
7. Joe Conason, “Reagan without sentimentality,” Salon, June 8, 2004; http://archive.salon.com/opinion/conason/2004/06/08/reagan/index.html, accessed 2/1/08.
8. Lisa Myers and Jim Popkin, “FBI Probes Nevada Governor for Corruption,” NBC News, May 11, 2007.
9. Michael Carey, “The Demise of a ‘Senator for Life,’” Seattle Times, August 5, 2008; http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2008091590_stevensop05.html, accessed 8/5/08.
10. Ben Pershing, “The Culture of Corruption,” The Washington Post, July 3, 2008; http://blog.washingtonpost.com/capitol-briefing/2008/07/the_culture_of_corruption_cont.html, accessed 8/1/08.
11. See James Carville on the late CNN show Crossfire on July 1, 2003, repeating, “I just will never get over it. I just can’t get over it,” in debate with Ralph Nader, Crossfire, CNN, July 1, 2003. See also Carville’s comments on March 9, 2004, when he said of Bush, “I think he’s really the president, but I think he was put in there by Scalia and Rehnquist and that whole crowd of bandits they got up there at the Supreme Court,” Crossfire, CNN, March 9, 2004.
12. Jeffrey Toobin, “Too Close to Call,” p. 33.
13. Ibid.
14. Jonathan Chait, “How the Netroots Became the Most Important Mass Movement in U.S. Politics,” TNR, May 7, 2007.
15. U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, “Voting Irregularities in Florida During the 2000 Presidential Election,” at www.usccr.gov (June 8, 2001).
16. Damien Cave, “In Florida Mailboxes, Harsh Attacks on Obama,” New York Times, October 20, 2008; http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/10/20/in-florida-mailboxes-harsh-attacks-on-obama/, accessed 12/8/08.
17. Seth Colter Walls, “Florida GOP Mailer: Obama ‘No Friend of Israel,’” Huffington Post, October 28, 2008; www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/28/florida-gop-mailer-obama_n_138628.html, accessed 12/8/08.
18. Dara Kam, “GOP Mailers List Incorrect Sites for Voting,” Palm Beach Post, www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/state/epaper/2008/10/20/1020gopvoting.html, accessed 12/8/08.
19. Ibid.
20. David Barstow and Don Van Natta, Jr., “Examining the Vote; How Bush Took Florida: Mining the Overseas Absentee Vote,” New York Times, July 15, 2001.
21. “Obama Renews Call for Gonzales to Be Replaced as Attorney General,” Web site of U.S. Senator Barack Obama, http://obama.senate.gov/press/070329-obama_renews_ca/, accessed 12/8/08.
22. Boston Globe, April 8, 2007.
23. The Washington Post, May 24, 2007.
24. Think Progress, 5/23/07.
25. Los Angeles Times, June 24, 2008.
26. Ibid.
27. Ibid.
28. Ibid.
29. Ibid.
30. “The Progressive Majority: Why a Conservative America Is a Myth,” Media Matters, http://mediamatters.org/progmaj/report, accessed 4/1/08.
31. Larry Bartels, “What’s the Matter with What’s the Matter with Kansas?,” 9/05, www.princeton.edu/~bartels/kansas.pdf, accessed 1/03/08.
32. Morris Fiorina, “What Culture Wars?” 7/14/04, www.hoover.org/publications/digest/3010006.html, accessed 1/2/08.
CHAPTER 2
1. David Paul Kuhn, “Mehlman, Rove Boost McCain Campaign,” Politico, www.politico.com/news/stories/0308/8911.html, accessed 12/8/08.
2. Tod Lindberg, “Pathetic Republicans,” Weekly Standard, November 30, 2006, www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/948vawcv.asp?pg=2.
3. Lydia Saad, “As Independents Shrink, Democrats Gain,” Gallup, 7/2/08, www.gallup.com/poll/108619/Independents-Shrink-Democrats-Gain.aspx, accessed 7/2/08.
4. “McCain Defends ‘100 Years in Iraq’ Statement,” CNN, February 1, 2008, www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/02/14/mccain.king/; www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFknKVjuyNk, accessed 6/1/08.
5. “McCain on When Troops Can Come Home from Iraq: ‘That’s Not Too Important,’” Think Progress, Center for American Progress Action Fund, 6/11/08, http://thinkprogress.org/2008/06/11/mccain-iraq-important/, accessed 6/12/08.
6. “McCain Conflates Shiite Iran and Sunni Al Qaeda, Needs to Be Corrected by Lieberman,” Think Progress, 3/18/08, http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/18/mccain-iran-al-qaeda/, accessed 4/1/08.
7. McCain Speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, November 5, 2008.
8. “Cheney Five Years Ago: ‘We Will, in Fact, Be Greeted as Liberators,’” Think Progress, http://thinkprogress.org/2008/03/14/cheney-mccain-liberators/, accessed 6/1/08.
9. “New McCain Rips Old McCain’s Argument That Bush’s Tax Cuts Benefit the Wealthy,” Think Progress, 2/17/08, http://thinkprogress.org/2008/02/17/mccain-wealthy-taxes/, accessed 2/24/08.
10. Robert Gordon and James Kvaal, “Five Easy Pieces and Two Trillion Dollars,” Center for American Progress Action Fund, 3/21/08, www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2008/taxagenda.html, accessed 4/2/08.
11. James Kvaal, “$4 Billion Among Friends,” The Wonk Room, 3/27/08, http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/03/27/mccain-petroleum, accessed 4/1/08.
12. “REPORT: McCain Plan Doles Out $2 Billion in Tax Cuts for the Biggest Health Insurers,” 4/9/08, http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/04/09/mccain-tax-health-insurers/, accessed 4/12/08.
13. Martin Wolk, “Cost of Iraq War Could Surpass $1 Trillion,” MSNBC, March 17, 2008, www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11880954/, accessed 4/1/08.
14. “McCain’s Plan to Cut Earmarks Would Eliminate Aid to Israel,” Think Progress, Center for American Progress Action Fund, 4/16/08, http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/16/mccain-aid-israel/, accessed 4/18/08.
15. “McCain’s Speech Location Funded by Earmarks,” Think Progress, 4/3/08, http://thinkprogress.org/2008/04/03/mccains-speech-location-funded-by-earmarks/, accessed 5/1/08.
16. “McCain’s Plan to Cut Earmarks Would Eliminate Aid to Israel.”
17. Gordon and Kvaal, “Five Easy Pieces and Two Trillion Dollars.”
18. Ibid.; www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/2008/tax_agenda.html, p. 8.
19. Michael Cooper and Kevin Sack, “Federal Money in Health Care Plan from McCain,” New York Times, April 30, 2008, www.nytimes.com/2008/04/30/us/politics/30mccain.html?_r=2&oref-slogin& oref-login, accessed 5/1/08.
20. Michael Shear, “McCain Offers Market-Based Health Care Plan,” The Washington Post, April 30, 2008, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR2008042902706.html, accessed 5/3/08.
21. “Rep. Burgess Is Wrong: McCain’s Health Care Plan Would Undermine Existing Coverage,” The Wonk Room, Center for American Progress Action Fund, 6/11/08, http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/06/11/existing-coverage/, accessed 6/20/08.
22. “NEW STUDY: McCain’s Health Care Plan Raises Taxes on Millions of Middle-Class Families,” The Wonk Room, Center for American Progress Action Fund, 7/2/08, http://thinkprogress.org/wonkroom/2008/07/02/health-care-employment1-/, accessed 7/2/08.
23. Cooper and Sack, “Federal Money in Health Care Plan from McCain.”
24. “Rep. Burgess Is Wrong: McCain’s Health Care Plan Would Undermine Existing Coverage.”
25. “NEW STUDY: McCain’s Health Care Plan Raises Taxes on Millions of Middle-Class Families.”
26. Roger Hickey, “The McCain Health Plan: Millions Lose Coverage, Health Costs Worsen, and Insurance and Drug Industries Win,” Campaign for America’s Future, April 29, 2008.
27. “NEW STUDY: McCain’s Health Care Plan Raises Taxes on Millions of Middle-Class Families.”
28. Sam Stein, “McCain in 2005: I ‘Totally’ Support Bush on the ‘Transcendent Issues,’” Huffington Post, June 12, 2008; www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/06/12/mccain-2005-i-totally-sup_n_106733.html, accessed 6/15/08.
29. Chicago Tribune, August 11, 2004.
30. Fox News, “Fox and Friends,” February 8, 2008.
31. Associated Press, March 5, 2008.
32. NBC/WSJ via CQ, May 1, 2008.
33. Jeffrey Jones, “Americans Worry McCain Would Be Too Similar to Bush,” Gallup, 7/1/08, www.gallup.com/poll/108490/Americans-Worry-McCain-Would-Be-Too-Similar-Bush.aspx, accessed 7/1/08.
34. Washington Post ABC News Poll, 5/14/08, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/documents/postpoll_051208.html?sid=ST2008051400066, accessed 6/1/08.
35. Alan Abramowitz, “The Incredible Shrinking Republican Base,” Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball, Center for Politics, 5/1/08, www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/article.php?id=AIA2008050101, accessed 6/4/08.
36. Salon, September 17, 2007.
37. 2008 Exit Polls, CNN, www.cnn.com/ELECTION/2008/results/polls/#USP00p1, accessed 12/1/08; Salon, September 17, 2007.
38. Abramowitz, “The Incredible Shrinking Republican Base.”
39. Ibid.
40. Ibid.
41. Curtis Gans, “African-Americans, Anger, Fear and Youth Propel Turnout to Highest Level Since 1960,” Center for the Study of the American Electorate, December 17, 2008.
42. “How Hispanics Voted in the 2008 Election,” Pew Research Center, November 5, 2008; http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1024/exit-poll-analysis-hispanics, accessed 12/10/08.
43. Gans, “African-Americans, Anger, Fear and Youth Propel Turnout to Highest Level Since 1960.”
44. “Obama Wins Big Among Youth, Minority Voters,” CNN.com, 11/4/08; www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/11/04/exit.polls/, accessed 12/8/08.
45. “Turnout by Education, Race and Gender and Other 2008 Youth Voting Statistics,” Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, Tufts University; www.civicyouth.org/, accessed 12/1/08.
46. CIRCLE Staff, “Young Voters in the 2008 Presidential Election,” Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement, Tufts University; www.civicyouth.org/, accessed 12/1/08.
47. “Background on the Millennial Generation,” February 2007, Young Voter Strategies, www.youngvoterstrategies.org.
48. “Obama Wins Big Among Youth, Minority Voters,” CNN.com.
49. Los Angeles Times/Bloomberg, June 25, 2008.
50. CNN Exit Polls, accessed 7/22/08.
51. Laurie Goodstein, “Obama Made Gains Among Younger Evangelical Voters, Data Show,” New York Times, November 7, 2008.
52. Associated Press-Yahoo, July 17, 2008.
53. CNN Exit Polls, accessed 7/22/08.
54. Gallup, July 2, 2008.
55. Lauren Auerbach, “O’Reilly said question of whether humans are causing global warming is ‘all guesswork,’” Media Matters, media matters.org/items/200803040011, March 4, 2008.
56. O’Reilly: “[I]rresponsible and lazy…that’s what poverty is,” Media Matters, 6/16/04.
57. Seth Ackerman and Peter Hart, “Bill O’Reilly’s Sheer O’Reillyness: ‘Don’t Call Him Conservative—But He Is,’” Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), July/August 2001.
58. Ibid.
59. “O’Reilly: ‘I don’t see any difference between Huffington and the Nazis,’ KKK,” Media Matters, February 28, 2008; Steve Young, “Bill O’Reilly: ‘No Difference Between (Arianna) Huffington, Nazis and Ku Klux Klan.’” Huffington Post, February 27, 2008.
60. “O’Reilly: FBI should arrest the ‘clowns,’” Media Matters, Media Matters, June 22, 2005.
61. David Barstow, “Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand,” New York Times, April 20, 2008.
62. “Iraq Dominates PEJ’S First Quarterly NCI Report,” Project for Excellence in Journalism, 5/25/08, journalism.org/node/5719, accessed 6/1/07.
63. David Bauder, “Fox Gives Iraq War Less Attention” Associated Press, June 11, 2007.
64. “Online Focus: Brit Hume,” 2002.
65. John Harris and Jim VanderHei, “Why McCain Is Getting Hosed in the Press,” Politico, October 28, 2008, www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14982.html, accessed 12/1/08.
66. Michael Scherer, “McCain’s 7 Steps to Beating Obama,” Time, May 12, 2008.
CHAPTER 3
1. Eric Lipton, “Safety Agency Faces Scrutiny Amid Changes,” New York Times, September 9, 2007.
2. “Audit: U.S. lost track of $9 billion in Iraq funds,” CNN, January 3, 2005.
3. Eoin O’Carroll, “How hot was 2008?” Christian Science Monitor, 12/30/08, http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/12/30/how-hot-was-2008/, accessed 2/3/09.
4. Bryan Walsh, “The Planet Gets Cooler in ’08. Say What?” Time, 12/16/08, www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1866862,00.html, accessed 2/3/09.
CHAPTER 4
1. “Ex-Bush Aides Say He Never Recovered from Katrina,” Associated Press, December 30, 2008.
2. Rick Jervis, “New Orleans’ Population May Have Hit Plateau,” USA Today, August 4, 2008.
3. “Bush designates Allbaugh FEMA director, Rove as senior White House adviser,” CNN.com, 1/4/2001, http://archives.cnn.com/2001/ALLPOLITICS/stories/01/04/bush.announce/, accessed 8/4/08.
4. David Stout, “Agency Chief Facing Test of a Lifetime on Response,” New York Times, September 14, 2001.
5. John Elliston, “A Disaster Waiting to Happen,” Indy Week, September 22, 2004.
6. “6th District Returns English to Congress,” Daily Oklahoman, November 9, 1988.
7. Florence Shinkle, “Mike Brown’s Inquiry into Loathsome Horseplay Preceded His Rise to Emergency Czar,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, March 23, 2000.
8. Elliston, “A Disaster Waiting to Happen.”
9. Ibid.
10. Will Bunch, “Did New Orleans Catastrophe Have to Happen? ‘Times-Picayune’ Had Repeatedly Raised Federal Spending Issues,” New Orleans Times-Picayune, August 31, 2005.
11. Dean Roberts, “New Orleans District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Faces $71.2M in Federal Cuts,” New Orleans City Business, June 6, 2005.
12. Evan Thomas, “How Bush Blew It,” Newsweek, September 19, 2005; “Press Gaggle with Scott McClellan,” aboard Air Force One, en route to Andrews Air Force Base, MD, August 31, 2005.
13. “Katrina Timeline,” courtesy of ThinkProgress.org, http://thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline/, accessed 6/1/08.
14. “Katrina was Category 3, not 4,” CNN, December 21, 2005, www.cnn.com/2005WEATHER/12/21/katrina/index.html/, accessed 3/17/09.
15. “Files Show White House Knew Levees Had Failed on First Day,” Associated Press, 2/10/2006 (as printed in the L.A. Times, p. A23).
16. NBC’s “Today Show” via “Katrina Timeline,” ThinkProgress.org, http://thinkprogress.org/katrina-timeline/, accessed 8/4/08.
17. Lara Jakes Jordan, “Levee breaches reported by 28 agencies as Katrina hit, documents show,” Associated Press, 2/9/2006.
18. “Katrina: The Warnings Bush Received,” Associated Press video, March 1, 2006, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content//video/2006/03/01/VI2006030101864.html, accessed 8/4/08.
19. “Katrina: The Warnings Bush Received,” Associated Press video.
20. “President Participates in Conversation on Medicare,” WhiteHouse.gov 8/29/2005, www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050829-5.html, accessed 8/4/08.
21. Whitehouse.gov, www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/images/20050829-5_p082905pm-0125-515h.html, accessed 8/4/08.
22. “FEMA director waited to seek Homeland help,” Associated Press, September 7, 2005.
23. “President Participates in Conversation on Medicare,” WhiteHouse.gov, 8/29/2005, www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050829-5.html, accessed 8/4/08.
24. Doug MacCash and James O.Byrne, “Catastrophic Storm Surge Swamps 9th Ward, St. Bernard Lakeview Levee Breach Threatens to Inundate City,” Times-Picayune, August 30, 2005.
25. “President Discusses Medicare, New Prescription Drug Benefits,” WhiteHouse.gov, 8/29/2005, www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2005/08/20050829-11.html, accessed 8/4/08.
26. Editor and Publisher via “Katrina Timeline.”
27. Evan Thomas, Newsweek, September 11, 2005.
28. Adam Nagourney and Anne Kornblut, “White House Enacts a Plan to Ease Political Damage,” New York Times, September 5, 2005.
29. Thomas, “How Bush Blew It.”
30. “President Addresses Nation, Discusses Hurricane Katrina Relief Efforts,” WhiteHouse.gov, 9/3/05, accessed 8/4/08.
31. Manuel Roig-Franzia and Spencer Hsu, “Many Evacuated, but Thousands Still Waiting,” The Washington Post, September 4, 2005.
32. Bruce Nolan, “Mission Work Is Central to Ohio Congregation,” Associated Press, 6/28/08, www.examiner.com/a-1463380~Mission_work_is_central_to_Ohio_congregation.html, accessed 7/1/08.
CHAPTER 5
1. Jennifer Agiesta, “Behind the Numbers: Ideological Shift or Just Complicated?”, The Washington Post, November 13, 2008.
2. These Statistics drawn respectively from Associated Press, 5/30/08; Boston Globe, 4/12/08; Associated Press, 6/3/08; American University, 5/19/08; 538.com, 5/28/08; Associated Press, 6/4/08; and CBS, 6/4/08.
3. Curtis Gans, “African-Americans, Anger, Fear and Youth Propel Turnout to Highest Level Since 1960,” Center for the Study of the American Electorate, December 17, 2008.
4. Associated Press, June 3, 2008.
5. “Dan Morain and Janet Hook, Obama Has Cash Advantage,” Los Angeles Times, http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jun/05/nation/na-money5, accessed 6/6/08.
6. Greg Sargent and Eric Kleefeld, “Multiple Oil Company Executives Gave Huge Contributions to Electing McCain Just Days After Offshore Drilling Reversal,” Talking Points Memo, 8/4/08, http:// tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/oil_company_executives.php, accessed 8/1/08.
CHAPTER 6
1. FEC Filings by Hillary Clinton for President, http://query.nictusa.com/cgi-bin/dcdev/forms/C00431569/, accessed 6/27/08.
CHAPTER 7
1. McCain on His Computer Illiteracy: “I’m Learning to Get Online Myself, and I’ll Have That Down Fairly Soon,” ThinkProgress.org, July 12, 2008.
2. Carla Marinucci, “McCain Defends His Tech Smarts in S.F.: He says he’s using computer more each day,” San Francisco Chronicle, July 29, 2008.
3. David All, “Joe Trippi says…” www.davidallgroup.com April 5, 2007. Accessed 8/4/2008 via WaybackMachine: http://web.archive.org/web/20070622195120; www.davidallgroup.com/2007/04/05/joe-trippi-says-republicans/.
4. Jose Antonio Vargas, “Online, GOP Is Playing Catch-Up,” Washington Post, May 21, 2007.
5. “McCain Cashes In with Internet Fund-Raising Chat,” CNN.com, February 11, 2000.
6. Ibid.
7. Gary Wolf, “How the Internet Invented Howard Dean,” Wired, January 2004.
8. Ibid.
9. Michael Wolff, “Candidate.com,” New York Magazine, September 8, 2003.
10. Glen Justice, “Kerry Kept Money Coming with the Internet as His ATM,” The Washington Post, November 6, 2004.
11. Justice, “Kerry Kept Money Coming with the Internet as His ATM.”
12. Vargas, “Online, GOP Is Playing Catch-Up.”
13. Andrew Rasiej and Micah L. Sifry, “Don’t Believe the Online Fund-raising Hype,” Politico, April 18, 2007.
14. Ibid.
15. Ben Smith, “A Glimpse at the Obama Web,” Politico—Ben Smith’s Blog, www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0608/A_glimpse_at_the;Obama;web.html, accessed 8/4/08.
16. ActBlue “Support,” http://actblue.com/support, accessed 6/20/08.
17. www.february7.org/why.php.
18. www.blogads.com, accessed 8/4/08.
19. “Reid presses to keep administration honest on Iran,” http://democrats.senate.gov/newsroom/record.cfm?id=256815&, accessed 8/4/08.
CHAPTER 8
1. Press release from Office of Senator Inhofe, July 28, 2003.
2. Chris Mooney, The Republican War on Science (New York: Basic Books, 2005).
3. Bill Blakemore, “Arctic’s First Ice Free Summer Possible,” ABC News 6/27/08, http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=5265092&page=1), accessed 6/29/08.
4. John Church and Neil White, “A 20th century acceleration in global sea-level rise,” Geophysical Research Letters, 33: L01602, L01602, doi: 10.1029/2005GL024826, January 6, 2006.
5. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2.2.5.4 Mountain glaciers. Climate Change 2001 (Working Group I: The Scientific Basis).
6. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2.7 Has Climate Variability, or Have Climate Extremes, Changed?, www.grida.no/climate/ipcc_tar/wg1/088/htm.
7. www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg2/ar4-wg2-spm.pdf.
8. Greg Miller, “Climate Change Likely to Trigger Global Destabilization, Report Says,” Los Angeles Times, www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/washingtondc/la-na-intel26-2008jun26.0.5875448.story, accessed 6/1/08.
9. http://inhofe.senate.gov/pressreleases/climateupdate.htm, and press release from Office of Sen. Inhofe.
10. Nicholas Thompson, “Science Friction,” Washington Monthly (August 2003), www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2003/0307.thompson.html, accessed 4/5/08.
11. Felicity Barriner, “White House Refused to Open Pollutants Email,” New York Times, June 25, 2008.
12. J. R. Pegg, “US Senate Abandons Global Warming Bill,” Environment News Service, June 6, 2008.
13. Casey Luskin, “Human Origins and Intelligent Design,” Progress in Complexity, Information, and Design, Volume 4.1 (July 2005).
14. “The Theory of Intelligent Design: A briefing packet for educators to help them understand the debate between Darwinian evolution and intelligent design,” Discovery Institute, www.discovery.org/scripts/viewDB/filesDB-download.php?command=download&id= 1453, accessed 5/25/08.
15. “Evolution FAQ,” PBS, 2001, www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/faq/cat01.html#Q02, accessed 5/1/08.
16. Raju Chebium, “75 Years after the Scopes Trial Pitted Science Against Religion, the Debate Goes On,” CNN, July 13, 2000.
17. Gallup Poll, June 20, 2008.
18. Jeannette Catsoulis, “Resentment Over Darwin Evolves into a Documentary,” New York Times, April 18, 2008.
19. Peter Baker and Peter Slevin, “Bush Remarks on ‘Intelligent Design’ Theory Fuel Debate,” The Washington Post, August 3, 2005.
20. Mike Huckabee, “Debate Real-Time Response: Huckabee on Evolution,” www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JC2ptcJxD4&feature=related; transcript, CNN, 6/5/07, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/05/se.01.html, accessed 5/10/08.
21. Transcript, CNN, 6/5/07, http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0706/05/se.01.html, accessed 5/10/08.
22. “Ron Paul on Teaching Evolution,” Physics Today, 1/10/08, http:// blogs.physicstoday.org/politics08/2008/01/ron_paul_on_teaching_evolution.html, accessed 5/10/08; video here http://youtube.com/watch?v=6JyvkjSKMLw.
23. Sam Brownback, “What I Think about Evolution,” New York Times, May 31, 2007.
24. Stephen Pizzo, “Tom DeLay in His Own Words,” Alternet, May 16, 2002.
25. Bruce Tomaso, “Obama: Let’s teach science in science class,” Dallas Morning News, 4/14/08, http://religionblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2008/04/obama-lets-teach-science-in-sc.html, accessed 5/14/08.
26. Patrick Healy and Cornelia Dean, “Clinton Says She Would Shield Science from Politics,” 10/5/07, www.nytimes.com/2007/10/05/us/politics/05clinton.htm, accessed 5/1/08.
27. Mike Allen and Brian Faler, “Quotables,” The Washington Post, 8/15/05, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/14/AR2005081401037.html.
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CHAPTER 10
1. James Carville, We’re Right, They’re Wrong (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996), pp. 11–12.
2. Ibid.
3. “Presidential Economics Myths and Facts Laid out by Weiner and Larmett amidst ‘Wild Stock Ride,’” Business Wire, August 16, 2007.
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7. Larry Bartels, Unequal Democracy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008), p. 31.
8. “Equal Time,” MSNBC, December 21, 2000.
9. David Sanger, “OUTLOOK 1995; A Lingering Unease Despite Strong Growth,” New York Times, 1/3/95, http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=990CE1DF1738F930A35752C0A963958260&sec=&spon=, accessed 6/15/08.
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22. “Presidential Economics Myths and Facts Laid Out by Weiner and Larmett amidst ‘Wild Stock Ride,’” Business Wire, August 16, 2007.
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26. “The Way We Were: Comparing the Bush Economy with the Clinton Economy.”
27. Von Hoffman, “Inflation’s Undertow.”
28. “The Way We Were: Comparing the Bush Economy with the Clinton Economy.”
29. Von Hoffman, “Inflation’s Undertow.”
30. Bartels, “Partisan Politics and U.S. Income Distribution.”
31. Calculation of top 5 percent is based on the eleven states where population was large enough to conduct analysis—“Income Inequality.”
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35. “The Way We Were: Comparing the Bush Economy with the Clinton Economy.”
36. Bureau of Labor Statistics; Robert Atkinson and Julie Hutto, PPI’s “Bush vs. Clinton: An Economic Performance Index,” October 2004.
37. Ibid.
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49. Ibid.
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52. Ibid.
53. Ibid.
54. Ibid.
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61. Robert Samuelson, “Let’s Shoot the Speculators,” Newsweek, 7/14/08, http://www.newsweek.com/id/143786, accessed 7/1/08.
62. Richard Benedetto, “Cheney’s Energy Plan Focuses on Production,” USA Today, 5/1/01, www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2001-05-01-cheney-usat.htm, accessed 7/1/08.
63. Arianna Huffington, “Governor Davis and the Failure of Power,” Salon.com, 1/27/01, http://archive.salon.com/politics/feature/2001/01/27/power/index.html, accessed 7/1/08.
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CHAPTER 11
1. Scott Keeter, Juliana Horowitz, Alec Tyson, “Young Voters in the 2008 Election,” Pew Research Center, 11/12/08, http://pew research.org/pubs/1031/young-voters-in-the-2008-election, accessed 11/14/08.
2. Mark Hugo Lopez and Emily Kirby, “Electoral Engagement Among Minority Youth,” CIRCLE, July 2005.
3. See D. O. Sears and S. Levy, “Childhood and Adult Political Development,” in D. O. Sears, L. Huddy, and R. Jervis, eds., Oxford Handbook of Political Psychology (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 60–109.
4. Angus Campbell, Phillip Converse, Warren Miller, and Donald Stokes. The American Voter. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960.
5. Sears and Levy, “Childhood and Adult Political Development.”
6. D. Green and B. Palmquist, Political Behavior, vol. 16, no. 4 (December 1994): 437–46.
7. Jennifer Agiesta, “Behind the Numbers: Ideological Shift or Just Complicated?,” The Washington Post, November 13, 2008.
8. Gans, “African-Americans, Anger, Fear and Youth Propel Turnout to Highest Level Since 1960.”
9. National Youth Survey, Democracy Corps, March 2009.
10. Norman Ornstein, “The Curse of the Six-Year Itch,” Atlantic Monthly (March 1986), www.theatlantic.com/politics/polibig/ornstein.htm, accessed 5/1/08.
11. National Youth Survey, Democracy Corps, March 2009.
12. CBS Poll: “Economy Worries Young Voters,” CBS News, 4/21/08, www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/04/21/opinion/polls/main4029859.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4029859, accessed 5/1/08.
13. Jeannine Aversa, “Jobless Rate Climbs as 51,000 Jobs Vanish,” Associated Press, August 1, 2008.
14. CBS Poll: “Economy Worries Young Voters.”
15. Nicholas Kristof, “Cheney’s Virtue,” International Herald Tribune, 8/20/07, www.iht.com/articles/2007/08/20/opinion/edkristof.php, accessed 1/1/08.
16. National Priorities Project, www.nationalpriorities.org/tradeoffs? location_type=1&state=888&program=577&tradeoff_item_item=365&submit_tradeoffs=Get+Trade+Off, accessed 8/5/08.
CHAPTER 12
1. Pew Research Center, May 14, 2008.
2. Paul Begala and James Carville, Take It Back (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2006), p. xi.
CHAPTER 13
1. ABC News/Washington Post Poll, 6/16/2008.
2. Elizabeth Landau, “Report: Teen pregnancies up for the first time in 15 years,” CNN, July 11, 2008.
3. L. Finer, Trends in Premarital Sex in the United States, 1954–2003, Public Health Reports, 2007; 23:73.; U.S. Census Bureau, Special and “Unmarried and Single Americans Week, Sept. 17–23, 2006,” press release, August 10, 2006, www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/007285.html, accessed July 3, 2008.
CONCLUSION
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