--- Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote: "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."
Are you sure these percentages are of the population rather than the electorate? Isnt it true that something like half the population doesnt vote, in which case a quarter of the total pop would mean half of the electorate are leftists!
BobW
>
> 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
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