>That's precisely the strategy that leftists should use: use the
>issues that matter to your base -- class issues like the Iraq War,
>universal health care, public works jobs with living wages for the
>unemployed, shorter workweeks, etc. -- to split the people and then
>win on turnout -- except that leftists can't do this through the
>Democratic Party. We have to do this primarily through social
>movements and secondarily third-party campaigns that serve as the
>movements' electoral expressions.
Nevada & Florida both passed the minimum wage increase by large margins - and went for Bush. People voted for Bush not because of "issues," but because of crap like "character."
Doug