Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: New votes? I doubt it; they're probably voting Dem already. So if the middle third is indifferent and the top third hostile, they've got little to gain with this strategy. In the second paper, with the education-based def of w.c., the white masses rate the Dem party to their left on econ issues. Phantasmically, perhaps, but that's what they say.
Surveys aside, where are the successful candidates who purused an economic populist agenda? Congressman Kucinich, maybe, but certainly not presidential candidate Kucinich - and Dem primary voters are the leftest of all.
Doug ___________________________________ Here in CT, Ned Lamont is bombing in the polls with an economic populist message in his primary challenge to Lieberman. No one's interested.
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