On Nov 5, 2010, at 10:16 PM, Somebody Somebody wrote:
> Shane: How stupid can you get? The Dumbos were trashed be their 2008 voters by *not voting*.
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> Somebody: Both you and Alan seem to subscribe to the view that there's a vast reserve army of nonvoters silently waiting to be mobilized by a true left-wing leader. I wish that this were true, but I prefer to stick to the empirical data rather than to what's ideologically comfortable.
This year's voters were whiter, righter, and older than the last crop, there's no doubt about that. I agree about the untapped reservoir's essential nonexistence though.
Doug