So on the Republican side, the strategy has shifted from fighting the theory of sampling to fighting the mechanics of it".
Like Sessions, Cook is a fierce proponent of the crime-fighting theory that is responsible for our current era of mass incarceration.
For more than a year, Diebold also has been fighting conspiracy theories popularized on the Internet that say its Jetsons-at-the-polling-place wares serve as cover for an ongoing effort to stuff electronic ballot boxes on behalf of the Republican Party.
So why are they fighting?A popular theory is that geography is reasserting itself.
Why are scientists fighting over these theories?
For example, an atheist fighting to keep the theory of evolution in schools should reassure Christians that their faith is compatible with modern science.
George Kelling, a Rutgers professor of criminal justice who is helping to establish an effort in Newark to reduce homicide, helped develop the "broken window" theory of fighting crime: addressing small issues quickly.
People even seem thrilled to hear him discuss, over and over, the intricacies of his theories about fighting crime.
Some of Mr. Ryan's aides said that as a candidate he had hoped to spend more time in poor urban areas to explain his theories of fighting poverty, and was restrained by his schedule.
She could, in theory, keep on fighting all the way to the party convention in Denver in August.
Governor Romney ultimately won the nomination and wound up fighting the election on the theory (warmly espoused by Limbaugh) that 47 percent of the U.S. population who received government entitlements, such as Social Security, Medicaid, veterans' benefits and food stamps, were tax-dodging deadbeat pawns for Democrats' social bribery.
