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Posted by: docjim505
at March 8, 2007 06:38 AM
Now, what if that wannabe transgender City Manager in Florida goes on
to bigger and better things? Could he/she be the “first woman presi-
dent” if elected?
Posted by: BarCodeKing
at March 8, 2007 07:13 AM
“Perhaps the Democrats might dispense with the gender and ethnic
politics and just focus on policy instead.”
If properly explained, the Democrat policy is wildly unpopular with the
electorate, which is why they resort to this sort of sham, hocus pocus
redirection, rather than discussing what they actually want to accom-
plish (socialized everything), once elected.
Posted by: NoDonkey
at March 8, 2007 07:18 AM
Of course, Ms Michelman would probably be aghast at a Condi presi-
dential run — even though she's both black and a woman.
And Mr Edwards, being identified as the “woman” presidential candi-
date won't help you.
Posted by: rbj
at March 8, 2007 07:22 AM
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/009354.php,
accessed on 8 March 2007
The preceding blog is fairly typical. It demonstrates a substantive, authored
editorial on the topic of identity politics. It is then followed by a discussion with
shorter contributions that reflect a kind of public dialog or debate. This type of
data is useful for political analysis or other types of social science research.
Managing the content for analysis in a program such as HyperResearch simply
requires cutting and pasting the text into a word processor document file and
inserting a tilde (~) between sections to enable the researcher to code each sub-
mission independently. If you have access to the content management system's
back-end database on the blog server, then you can extract the posting and
comments from the database with database tools. This may be preferable for
large quantities of text, making it easier to prepare for analysis.
One of the challenges of the blogosphere is the sheer quantity of blogs. There
are volumes of blogs in a number of different languages. Most researchers,
therefore, will want to take advantage of some kind of service for assisting
with their search for quality data, as well as managing the volumes of blogs
they want to use in their research. One such service is Technorati. By their
own statistics, Technorati (www.technorati.com) tracks over 112.8 million
blogs and over 250 million pieces of tagged social media. As they note on their
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