Bill Bishop at Slate has an interesting take on why the folks at McCain-Palin rallies seem to be so angry. We can all thank the wisdom of crowds. Apparently, there's nothing like being around people like you to make you even more like you. A few kinda angry people get together and become lots of really angry people.
The full take here:
... Social scientists have proposed several reasons for why like-minded groups tend to polarize. Two have survived scrutiny. The first is that homogenous groups are privy to a large pool of ideas and arguments supporting the group's dominant position. Everybody hears the arguments in favor of the group's belief, and as they're discussed, people grow stouter in their beliefs...
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