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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Chris Hayes on the crisis of elites and the politics of order

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Conflicting Theories of Beliefs

The way the economy affects elections is it really only seems to matter how the economy is doing in the last eight months of a term. And there's no evidence that half of the folks who govern during a period of drought are getting a boost because people think they did a better than average job responding to drought. The question of what you believe actually has a lot to do with, are you feeling afraid right then? That's I think a lesson from New York in the 90s. We're activating a lot of racial identities, a lot of national identities. But this election could have been about race because Obama won the last election and Romney very consciously did not activate racial identity.

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