One Book, Two Book, Red Book, Blue Book

Katherine Mangu-Ward | October 10, 2008, 3:10pm As usual, this election is suffering from a two-sets-of-facts problem. Democratic voters know one batch of data, and Republicans another, and only rarely the twain shall meet. But lest we educated, well-informed readers of reason get on our high horses about the stupidity of people who get their facts from partisan cable news and talk radio, take a look at these charts showing political book buying patterns. They're from the work of social networking big thinker Valdis... [read full story]