[lbo-talk] Needed: A Head Count

[Carrol Cox]

The main reason for campaigning for anybody but Bush/Kerry is that the
final tally will provide a partial head count of our (the left's)
_immediate_* constituency, and that seems to me rather more important
than who occupies the White House next January 20. 

Carrol

*Constituencies need to be envisaged in terms of concentric circles.
Beyond our immediate constituency of those who see "U.S. Out of Iraq" as
_the_ issue are all those (approaching half the population now) who,
while not yet ready to translate the principle into practice,
nevertheless accept it passively. As we can make resistance more
visible, more of those passive supporters will gain the courage to join
us. And with that growth we can expand the struggle to issues beyond the
mobilizing issue of withdrawal from Iraq.