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Sunday, April 11, 2010

Overton window

The Overton window is a "'window' in the range of public reactions to ideas in public discourse, in a spectrum of all possible options on an issue." This is how Wikipedia orders the range of possibilites:

* Unthinkable
* Radical
* Acceptable
* Sensible
* Popular
* Policy

Nate Silver argues that if Obama wants to nominate someone like Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court, he would need to present this list:

* Garland (moderate)
* Kagan
* Wood
* Karlan
* Sullivan
* Koh (liberal)

... instead of this one:

* Olsen (moderate)
* Posner
* Dorgan
* Garland
* Kagan
* Wood (liberal)

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