On Aug 16, 2007, at 5:33 PM, Julio Huato wrote:
> Doug wrote:
>
>> If you mean people with something
>> like social democratic and antiwar
>> politics, then you're probably
>> talking about 10-15% of the U.S.
>> pop. That number most certainly
>> is large enough to affect primary
>> elections, given their low turnout.
>
> How do you back up this estimate of 10-15%, Doug?
When I typed that, I was dimly recalling the Pew Center's political typologies, which go back to work by its predecessor, the Times Mirror Center, in the late 1980s. Their latest is at:
<http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?PageID=949>
Their "liberals" are 17% of the pop, and "disaffecteds" are another 10%. If half of each fit my description, then I'm there! If more than half do, we're approaching a quarter of the pop.
Doug