izens or a "radical" who is trying to move our country towards socialism.
             I am especially fond of two principals in the Baugartner and Jones model; issue definition and changing venues. Like most of Baumgartner and Jones' work, when I attempt to scrutinize it, I find a virtual impossibility in offering a competing theory.
             When examining issue definition, I discovered that defining or attempting to define issues (sometimes referred to as "spinning") is something I have witnessed on countless occasions. In fact, when I was a novice campaign strategist and lobbyist, I engaged in this practice without knowing there was a legitimate noun for what I was doing.
             Baumgartner and Jones contend that interest groups, institutions, politicians, and the like attempt to "define" an issue in a wa
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