Talk:Criminalization of politics

Is this even a notable term?
I am just wondering. I did some poking around and as far as I can tell this term has only really been used a few times by a few bloggers and journalists who were obviously trying ot coin a phrase and get their 15 minutes. Dalf | Talk 09:38, 2 January 2006 (UTC)


 * Hmmm, "criminalization of politics" now gets more than 57,000 Google hits. Even if you exclude Wikipedia and blogs, there are 18,000 hits, many of them in noted journals and media outlets. I think this phrase is pretty well established, and it was well underway even before the current presidential administration. Kestenbaum 07:03, 19 February 2006 (UTC)


 * I get 12,000 following the link you provided, and a phrase comming in with such a low number of hits (even the 57k number), does not make it a real phenomana or even a real term for something that may or may not exist/be happening. Mostly I am just saying that the media in the usa has a pretty amazing power to invent political terms which have specious meaning or application and those terms have a pretty steap half-life. Do they ALL deserve articles when no one will be using them after they haave had their 15 minutes? Dalf | Talk 10:54, 19 February 2006 (UTC)