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planned parenthood The estimated amount of money generated by this completely grassroots campaign is estimated to be above $800,000. Thanks to Lisa Simeone at Cogitamus for pointing me towards a brilliant Slate article by Melinda Henneberger and Dahlia Lithwick about what they call e Harmony voting, where people are more interested in validating candidates for being someone they'd like to have as friends than as someone whose policies and leadership skills fit the qualifications the voter would like to see. Voters of every stripe are guilty of this, from urban liberals who see themselves in the Obamas to soccer moms cozying up to the Palins to grumpy old men who think McCain is clearly the best choice. As the authors note, no where is this attitude more prevalent than in the women who supported Hillary Clinton and can't get over their bitterness that she lost, projecting all their problems onto her candidacy. But there's another way that the personal above the political is used more and more, and it's a way to soften up the culture wars for the moderates who run far away from the ugliness that invariably springs up in the clash over how much control the government should give your puritanical neighbor over your bedroom and family life. More and more often we're seeing culture warriors make appeals to their own personal charm or tolerance in order to convince skittish moderates that they aren't so far to the right. Mike Huckabee highlighted his sense of humor and his willingness to play some rock music. And now we have Sarah Palin contrasting her political views with her personal charm. The tactic may have reached a new level of strangeness when it was revealed that Sarah Palin, in order to convince people she's a true believer in love the sinner hate the sin , claimed in 2006 that even though she's hostile politically to gay rights, she's got gay friends. The problem, as Dan Savage noted, is that these gay friends haven't surfaced

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