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...clearly overmatched in last year’s pre-Game festivities); not a write-off or a readership challenge or some other journalism-related activity. No, this is a challenge that takes us back almost 40 years. Back to when guys from Harvard and Yale made it to the pros with regularity; when players like Calvin Hill saw their collegiate careers end with The Game and then moved on to win NFL Rookie of the Year honors. Back to when the two school newspapers settled arguments as they should be settled—through a mid-morning football game...
...automatic responses to most stimuli. As the psychologist Robert Zajonc wrote compellingly in 1980, "We do not just a see 'a house.' We see a 'handsome' house, an 'ugly' house, or a 'pretentious' house ... We sometimes delude ourselves that we proceed in a rational manner and weigh all the pros and cons of the various alternatives. But this is probably seldom the actual case. Quite often 'I decided in favor of X' is no more than 'I like X.'" Most of us pick what we like, Zajonc said, and then we justify it later...
...should respect undecided voters because they are trying hard to weigh the pros and cons and not be swayed by automatic, emotional responses. In the end, most of them will go with their guts - psychologists have shown that even those voters who at the explicit and conscious level deny any preference for a candidate usually have unconscious attitudes that predict how they will vote. But those who can wait until just days before a major election and still consciously describe themselves as undecided - that's an act of deliberative democratic will. At least, that's how I choose...
...regularly observed by political pros that Obama's background as an African American from humble origins would have made him just the kind of potential presidential successor Clinton would love to champion - if the young Illinois Senator hadn't stood in the way of Clinton's wife...
With just over a week to go until Election Day, polls are not looking great for Republican presidential nominee John McCain. So TIME asked four political pros what they would tell McCain to do in the last week in order to have a real chance at winning...