-Evidence: Where was the antiwar movement in this election year?
Most of it was out trying to get rid of the guy who started the war.
That may seem like a roundabout strategy to some folks who think standing around with a few thousand people in D.C. is the only real politics, but many folks who are passionately against the war see eliminating Bush as the first step to more comprehensive changes for peace and justice in the world.
The basic fact is the electoral antiwar movement is putting hundreds of thousands of people in the streets working to dump Bush, many of those people travelling great distances to swing states for that effort.
The anti-electoral faction of the antiwar movement could muster only a tiny number of people for their efforts.
Even if you think electoral work is not a sufficient strategy, those abandoning it are cutting them off from the mass movement of antiwar activists. Something like 400,000 people EVERY DAY are visiting www.dailykos.com, a decidedly antiwar site that is also electorally focused on dumping Bush.
It is pathetic that no leftwing website probably gets one-hundredth as much traffic every day, but the militant liberals are kicking the left's ass on organizing right now.
Nathan Newman