π§© BND Motif Index Β· M1135
Pick your opponent
One side is said to boost the weakest candidate in the other side's primary so it can beat them in November: McCaskill's ads for Todd Akin, Republicans backing the Democrat they think is a pushover.
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β οΈ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
πͺ Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
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π§Ά Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-08-22 βRepublicans are backing her because they think she's a pushover, the weakest of the Democratic field.β π³οΈ voters in The Focus Group
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