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Democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. Benjamin Franklin ELECTION AS OF 8/19/08 ELECTORAL COLLEGE--270 Needed to Win OBAMA 229 (43%) McCAIN 164 (31%) Toss Up 144 (27%) Toss Up = States with less than 5% difference ================================= NATIONAL HEAD-TO HEAD MATCHUP OBAMA 46% McCAIN 42% UNDECIDED 12% Note the difference from Electoral College % shown above. ![]() ISBN: 978-0-8144-0931-2 A New Book by Joseph H. Boyett Hardcover -- 304 pages
Library Journal says "Won't Get Fooled Again" is: "SOPHISTICATED," "COHERENT," "TIMELY," "WEIGHTY," "WELL-RESEARCHED" "PROVIDES USEFUL INSIGHTS" "RECOMMENDED"
Won’t Get Fooled Again arms voters with the insight to pick good leaders, outwit bad leaders and detect the evil ones before they can cause serious problems. Drawing upon five years of research into the social psychology of political persuasion, Dr. Boyett systematically dissects the relationship we have with our political leaders, strips away the veil of magic and mystery shrouding the art of politics, and lays bare the tricks and techniques cynical political operatives use to convince us to support their candidates. Dr. Boyett teaches readers how to protect themselves from incompetent presidents, unsavory politicians and bad leaders in general. He gives readers the skills, tools, and techniques for demanding that politicians put voter concerns and the country’s needs ahead of politics. Won’t Get Fooled Again: • Provides specific and detail prescriptions for judging a political candidate’s qualifications for office and likely performance if elected. Won’t Get Fooled Again arms readers with: • A list of specific signs and symptoms that indicate that a candidate has destructive personality traits that may lead to mistakes and misjudgments once he is in office. I wrote Won't Get Fooled Again not to support any particular ideology, party, or candidate but to empower voters to change the questions they ask candidates to get beyond the poll-tested, scripted answers politicians always give. I want us as voters, with the help of the press, to start asking the kinds of questions whose answers can’t be scripted. I want us to push to get into the heads of the candidates, to find out what makes them tick, to understand how they arrive at their positions, to uncover their doubts and fears, to force them to reveal their motivations, to understand them not just as politicians but as people. The real issues the next president has to deal with will not be the issues we think are so important today. They will be issues no one anticipates, issues that are today unknown and unknowable. When Kennedy ran for office in 1960, no one anticipated that he would have to make a decision about whether to use nuclear weapons to disarm Cuba. Fortunately, he was up to the challenge. When George W. Bush was running for office in 2000, no one knew that if elected President he would have to decide how to deal with the terrorist attacks on American soil. Bush wasn’t up to that task. Could we and the press have done a better job of finding out about what made George W. Bush tick and how and under what circumstances he might turn out to be the wrong person for the job? I think so. But, we asked about his stand on the issues of the day. We didn’t ask enough questions about who he really was; what he really thought; who he listened to; and, how he made decisions. We paid a price for our negligence in not getting the questions right. For the last five years, Boyett & Associates has been researching leader/follower relationships.
During the coming months, we will be publishing a series of articles and research reports on this website exploring leadership and followership. We will look at the research conducted over the last twenty years seeking answers to why our leaders have failed us and what we should be doing to become better followers and to recruit better leaders. Check back each week to read a new article in our "Science of Leadership" series. If you missed a previous installment earlier articles in the series can be found on our "Articles" page for download in pdf format. VISIT OUR ARTICLES PAGE FOR THE NEWEST ARTICLES IN OUR SCIENCE OF LEADERSHIP SERIES Weapons of Influence |
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