Last week, I wrote a comment, "Naive Reporting" criticizing Garance Franke-Ruta's article, "Remapping the Culture Debate', and her breathless enthusing over questionable data from Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger--culled from a fine-grained marketing survey--which is touted as giving better insight into how Democrats can win, while undermining supposedly cruder ways of thinking.

Responding to a general message they convey--about social solidarity and economic equality, , I quickly found some contrary data.  And I followed up with a diary, "Voter-Mining vs. Framing--Subtext and Substance", where a laid out a broader critique of how such data--even when good--could be dangerously misused. Now, Ruy Teixeira has a piece that Chris referred to, which, among other things, takes a closer look at other data more closely tied to specific claims about gender roles, and finds more contradictory data out there.

With the Dems forever seeking to run away from their base and their traditional commitments to social, racial and economic justice,  this topic cries out for further analysis.Teixeira's diary is a good starting point for continuing this exploration.

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