[lbo-talk] [Fwd: Cretinism, electoral and otherwise]

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Sat Aug 18 06:21:21 PDT 2007


On Aug 18, 2007, at 7:11 AM, Marvin Gandall wrote:


> Very interesting. The numbers are from December, 2004, just after
> Bush's
> re-election. There has been an even more marked shift in US public
> opinion
> since then so the percentage of the population which fits the
> description of
> "liberals" and "disaffecteds" (the views of "disadvantaged
> Democrats" are
> also worth incorporating)

Yup you're right. That brings us close to 30%.


> is almost certainly higher. Has Pew updated this
> survey? A recent Economist article seemed to draw on some Pew
> findings which
> seemed more recent.

Pew uses the typology in other work, but they do major updates only every several years.

Doug



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