Meta-Narratives

Andrew Sullivan The Daily Dish  Feb 17 08

[Patrick Appel] John Heilemann tries to explain the media coverage of Obama and Clinton: Campaigns are, at bottom, a competition between memes: infectious ideas that gather force through sheer repetition. The most powerful of these memes are what Just refers... Full story...

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