A Brief Note

It is likely that those few readers who had been keeping up with this project have since left, frustrated that no new content has appeared in a long time.  Given the priority with which the author's regular employment has required, not much time could have been devoted to the LEO Test project without compromising the overall tenor of the project itself.  The analysis provided on this project are original to the project itself, and since data gathering is still not automated, the time investment required exceeds my feeble supply.

That said, however, the recent defeat in the Democratic Party primary in Connecticut of incumbent Senator Joe Lieberman, just in time for the end of the second Summer session at my home campus, coupled with commentary on the Donklephant site, has forced this author out of his apparent slumber and demanded that Lieberman be considered.  The visuals have not been prepared yet, but the results are worth noting.  Using five separate measurements, testing the incumbent Senator from Connecticut's "Issues" pages has yielded a very clear establishmentarian tendency.  Further analysis will be required, but provisionally it appears that Mr. Lieberman's overall preference is basically conservative... More later (hopefully)

Comments

[Kiki]

Oh for sure. That guy is (or should I say was?) a unique animal among big name dem's.

Regular employment? Bah! That's just for paying bills and eating and stuff like that.

[jonathon]

You should see this guy's composite numbers (in leo order).
Economy: 28.31.32. (centrist conservative)
DHS/Govt Affairs: 21.37.74 (conservative ideologue)
Education: 7.19.26 (conservative, ideologue threshold)
Security: 43.38.75 (moderate conservative)
Family: 20.35.40 (moderate conservative)
Environment/energy:15.24.51 (OK, this is one where American ideology flips. American "conservatives" are usually libertarians when it comes to environmental regulation)
Transportation: 11.18.28 (moderate conservative)
Health/Social Issues: 62.135.95 (moderate liberal)
"Health and social issues" is the only category that has him coming up a 'liberal'. If he keeps his seat in November that will be a wake-up call for the Democratic leadership. I've heard some in the Democratic Party rank-and-file talk about the need for a new ideological focus, since the New Deal/Great Society stuff just isn't cutting it anymore.

Regular employment:gotta feed the monkey. (aka that crack-like addiction to food, clothing and shelter...)

[JimDesu]

Yup, a total hippy, that Joey Lieberman -- obviously mainstream material for the dems ;)

[Jeremy]

Hey, good to see an update. Totally understand re real life :).

[Jeremy]

Just letting you know, I got into a discussion about these issues recently and ran an alaysis on a few Australian political parties here out of that. The raw text analysis (ie I didn't go through looking for context) seemed to capture the ideologies of the parties I analysed pretty well. The post is here:

http://modleft.blogspot.com/2006/09/leo-revisited.html

[Kiki]

Hey, can we get some numbers run on calling someone "Macaca?"

[jonathon]

He' Jeremy; glad to see you're still coming around. This academic year has really taken its toll on the momentum of this project, but I'll be sure to put a link up. I've also posted a comment on the Dispatches.