On Nov 12, 2009, at 11:52 AM, SA wrote:
> shag carpet bomb wrote:
>
>> *yawn*
>>
>> i can get this from any old opinion pollster. I come to this list
>> for a _reading_ of the barometer -- a prediction of what these
>> things mean and not what they mean for democrats, but what they
>> mean for a radical left politics.[1]
>
> Just as a point of information, this all started when Eric asked
> skeptically whether voting Democrat is a barometer of anything -- he
> didn't ask what it means for a radical left politics.
It's certainly not how I took the question.
But what does it mean for radical left politics? It means there's a relatively large base with sympathetic opinions that repeatedly votes for candidates who act otherwise once in office, and yet they keep voting for them (and even issuing apologias for them). It really wouldn't be breaking any new ground to muse on that contradiction, would it?
Doug