Sentence examples for partisan mind from inspiring English sources

Regarding "The partisan mind" (Views, Dec. 1): Ross Douthat has shown us how partisanship influences attitudes with respect to liberal values.

In "The Partisan Mind" (column, Nov. 29), Ross Douthat describes the flip-flopping and "role reversal" that occur as people switch their views about a policy depending on which party is responsible for it.

In the land of the partisan mind, of course, this part of Romney's answer has likewise been invoked a sign of his out-of-touch "Donna Reed in the kitchen, Dad in the barcalounger" view of women — because maybe wives don't want to make the dinner, governor!

It's troubling to me that I have an easier time understanding the highly partisan mind magic of Fox's coverage than CNN's these days.

("He and I share many positions, but his embrace of an unrelenting partisan mind-set is irreconcilable with my philosophy of governance and my experience of what brings results for Hoosiers in the Senate").

George Nuckols Quebro Plaza, Panama, Nov. 29, 2010 • To the Editor: In a refreshingly nonpartisan column, Ross Douthat documents the many ways that the partisan mind-set clouds objective thinking.

But true wisdom lies in acknowledging the suprarational nature of the partisan group-mind, and that it can only be truly understood by tapping into the equally suprarational mind of cosmic consciousness.

The researchers looked at survey data from the 2010 Cooperative Congressional Election Study for the paper, "Red and Blue States of Mind: Partisan Hostility and Voting in the United States".

We have, as the contemporary political scientist Donald Green, of Columbia, put it, "partisan hearts and minds".

Ultimately, Ratner said, any war between the buildings would play out in the battle for partisan "hearts and minds".

In "Partisan Hearts and Minds," published in 2002, three political scientists made an empirical case that political affiliations form in early adulthood and seldom change.