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Framing

This op-ed in the nytimes is along the lines of a previous article I had posted about framing the issues. The Dead Center, have a look!

I hope that Mr. Edwards and the others will stay on message ó and movement. After all, Democrats have seen what the Republican Party has been able to accomplish over the years. The conservative movement has developed dedicated sources of money and legions of ground troops who not only get out the vote, but also spend the time between elections persuading others to join their ranks. It has devised frames of reference that are used repeatedly in policy debates (among them: it’s your money, tax and spend, political correctness, class warfare).