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Rob Ford
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Not surprising - higher education levels and political interest are (in the US) associated with stronger partisanship, and thus stronger partisan biases.
I'm not sure I agree that responsibility for this can be put on universities or news media. If people have a strong attachment to an ingroup, and a strong hostility to outgroups, they will filter whatever information they are presented with to fit their existing prejudices
So it wouldn't make much difference if the news media and/or university professors presented strong partisans with entirely neutral and accurate information about their opponents, as strong partisans just ignore or explain away such info, while retaining info that confirms bias.
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We are now nearly a month on from the Eur Parl election, and still getting polls with neither Lab nor Con in the top two. Each such poll increases the risk that the "Tinkerbell effect" turns against the incumbents and starts to benefit the insurgents:
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