The NRA Outside Its Issue Niche

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/13/us/politics/13nra.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=NRA&st=cse

Power Elite Cartoon

http://www.politico.com/wuerker/archive/20100511-giant-new-supermarket-for-washingtons-elite-opens-.html

Supreme Court Ruling Helps Interest Groups

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/us/politics/22donate.html?hp

Health Care Lobbying Shifts to the States

This recent New York Times article shows how health care interest groups are “venue shopping” on health care:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/health/policy/29lobby.html?_r=1&hp

Health Care Interests: Winners and Losers Among Lobbying Groups

This recent article in The Hill weighs the winners and losers on the health care bill:

http://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/73605-k-streets-healthcare-winners-and-losers

MoveOn Addresses the Public Option

In this ad, MoveOn frames waiting on the public option as akin to waiting while a patient dies on an operating table: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5u_hxIVuBSs&feature=channel

MoveOn Attacks Joe Liberman on Health Care

See this recent MoveOn ad that addresses Joe Liberman’s fillibuster threats on health care reform: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vS6kIbJu64&feature=player_embedded

Selective Incentive Theory to the Extreme

Fabio Rojas’s observations from an antiwar rally this weekend show us an example of selective incentive theory taken to the extreme.  See: http://orgtheory.wordpress.com/2009/10/20/social-movement-frames-and-cookies/