In the case of the death penalty, isn't elite opinion more pwoggy than mass opinion? (Or is this belief on my part false?)
--- On Fri, 6/27/08, Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com> wrote:
>
> Public opinion is a complicated thing. Depending on how
> things are
> framed, a lot of Americans are more "progressive"
> than they're given
> credit for. Obama's playing to elite opinion at least
> as much as he's
> playing to mass opinion.