> Ruy Teixeira, The Disappearing American Voter, Washington: \
> Brookings
> Institutions, 1992
>
> He argues that mobilizing voters will not make any diofference in > the
outcome of elections. It makes sense - election
>participation is a function of social connectedness, not political >
ideology.
Nonsense! Everyone knows the general public fails to vote for the same reason some disaffected lefties choose not to vote--the lack of a genuine, compelling leftwing alternative to the Dems and Pubs.
-- Luke