The Bush-McCain challenge: can you really tell them apart?

I'm aware that McCain is different than Bush on a few issues.  But these are areas in which McCain has stumbled over a very low bar, indeed.  For instance, McCain has the intellectual brilliance to admit that we are terribly screwing up our environment and that energy is an issue…

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I’ll vote for the candidate who looks like . . . me!

The current edition of Science (September 7, 2007- articles available only to subscribers online) contains a short article entitled "The Art of Virtual Persuasion."  The author notes a wide variety of studies that have shown that "people who mimic the gestures or speech of others are often perceived by those…

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