Re: LA Times 8/7/07: Behind enemy lines
On Aug 8, 2007, at 12:27 AM, Chuck wrote:
What’s crazy about this is that there isn’t a dimes worth of
difference between the two parties.This absurd belief that the Democrats and Republicans are any
different is like something out of Gulliver’s Travels.
According to the American National Election Survey, about 75% of
voters in 2004 saw a clear difference between the two parties, and
about 80% cared who won - both the highest levels since the question
was first asked after the election of 1952. See Jeffrey Stonecash’s
paper on income inequality and voting http://www.apsanet.org/imgtest/PSJuly06Stonecash.pdf. Most radicals who take the not a dime’s worth
of difference line seem to think they’re speaking for the masses, but
evidently the masses don’t agree. So how to reconcile?
Doug