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...actually possible to understand the difference in online habits between Democrats and Republicans. We start with a survey of 35,000 Americans by Simmons Market Research Bureau, which tagged political affiliation along with other interests. The survey, along with other data, make up what's called a "mosaic," - segmentation of Americans grouped into 50 sections by similar behavior, interest and political affiliation. We can apply those segments to online activity to understand the difference between Democrats and Republicans...
...People who subscribe to this belief fail to understand several fundamental facts about psychiatric disorders and medications. Antidepressants—that is, serotonin and serotonin-norepenephrine reuptake inhibitors, or SSRIs and SNRIs—relieve symptoms of clinical depression by balancing levels of certain chemicals in the brain. Psychiatrists believe that if a person who does not suffer from clinical depression—that is, who has healthy brain chemistry—were to take an antidepressant, he would experience any number of negative side effects while not getting any benefit from the medication...
...Indeed, Buckley was in a sense mummified in his later years, retiring from the National Review in 2004, looming avuncular above the fray while the internecine policy battles raged, at that point primarily over Iraq. His movement, he seemed to understand with a certain melancholy resignation, had dissipated, had lost the exuberance and intellectual vitality of his storied youth. Increasingly feeble, he gave occasional speeches, delivered with his signature wit but devoid of his former rancor. In the end, it seemed, all the pater familias really wanted was a little peace for his family...
...rankles Bill Clinton to see his strong support among African Americans slipping away, but "there's a part of him that understands it, because he understands black people as well as anybody I know," says an old friend who is African American and continues to support him. "He understands it - doesn't like it - but he has to understand...
...knows he's the war candidate. And though may have regretted saying it out loud, McCain clearly accepts that if voters don't buy his vision for the war, he'll lose. It's not too much risk for Obama to stake his campaign on voters' ability to rationally understand the difference between a Hawaii-born Christian and Saddam Hussein, the butcher of Baghdad...