On Aug 8, 2007, at 12:27 AM, Chuck wrote:
> What's crazy about this is that there isn't a dimes worth of
> difference
> between the two parties.
>
> This absurd belief that the Democrats and Republicans are any
> different
> is like something out of Gulliver's Travels.
According to the American National Election Survey, about 75% of voters in 2004 saw a clear difference between the two parties, and about 80% cared who won - both the highest levels since the question was first asked after the election of 1952. See Jeffrey Stonecash's paper on income inequality and voting <http://www.apsanet.org/imgtest/ PSJuly06Stonecash.pdf>. Most radicals who take the not a dime's worth of difference line seem to think they're speaking for the masses, but evidently the masses don't agree. So how to reconcile?
Doug