{"id":18001,"date":"2010-10-27T20:10:52","date_gmt":"2010-10-28T00:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fryeblog.blog.lib.mcmaster.ca\/?p=18001"},"modified":"2010-10-27T20:10:52","modified_gmt":"2010-10-28T00:10:52","slug":"quote-of-the-day-the-imagination-and-the-electoral-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/2010\/10\/27\/quote-of-the-day-the-imagination-and-the-electoral-process\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Day: The Imagination and the Electoral Process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/vote.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-18003\" src=\"http:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/vote.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"302\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/vote.jpeg 432w, https:\/\/macblog.mcmaster.ca\/fryeblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2010\/10\/vote-300x274.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 302px) 100vw, 302px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>From &#8220;The Vocation of Eloquence&#8221; in <\/em>The Educated Imagination:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During an election campaign, politicians project various images on us and make speeches which we know to be at best a carefully selected part of the truth.\u00a0 We tend to look down on the person who responds to such appeals emotionally: we feel he&#8217;s behaving childishly and like an irresponsible citizen if he allows himself to be stampeded . . . 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