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To: Alan Smithee who wrote (493175)	6/28/2012 1:23:03 PM
From: TideGlider	Respond to of 793964

That was an interesting group with many Obama voters jumping ship. The black man in the rear called Obama a disappointment for all the right reasons. I anxiously await the next Frank Luntz focus group. Last night's panel had two physicians, both of whom were opposed to the ACA. Going to be interested to see the reaction of the next panel now that the ruling has come down.

To: Alan Smithee who wrote (493175)	7/4/2012 2:17:26 AM
From: ig	Respond to of 793964

I anxiously await the next Frank Luntz focus group. This episode explains how politicians on the left, in both Britain and America, turned to the techniques developed by business to read and fulfill the inner desires of the self. Both New Labour, under Tony Blair, and the Democrats, led by Bill Clinton, used the focus group, which had been invented by psychoanalysts, in order to regain power. They set out to mould their policies to people’s inner desires and feelings, just as capitalism had learnt to do with products. Out of this grew a new culture of public relations and marketing in politics, business and journalism. One of its stars in Britain was Matthew Freud who followed in the footsteps of his relation, Edward Bernays, the inventor of public relations in the 1920s. The politicians believed they were creating a new and better form of democracy, one that truly responded to the inner feelings of individual. But what they didn’t realise was that the aim of those who had originally created these techniques had not been to liberate the people but to develop a new way of controlling them.