On 2012-03-11, at 6:20 PM, Joseph Catron wrote:
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> > I see Marv's implicit claim here - that rejectionism, or purism, or
> > principle, or whatever you want to call it, is primarily the domain of
> > Richie and Whitie - bandied about quite a bit.
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> No, those are your words, Joseph, not mine - not implicitly or explicitly.
You said:
The question, of course, is whether the "small differences" between Obama and a (chastened) second term Bush administration or a Romney administration have "large effects". Depends on your standpoint. If you're poor and powerless, non-white, or have liberal rather than conservative social values, you'd be inclined to agree.
Have I somehow misread your words, which seem clear enough? You're saying that those who are "poor and powerless, non-white, or have liberal rather than conservative social values" are most likely to see "large effects" in alleged differences between the two parties, correct? Unless I've misunderstood you completely, I can only repeat that, with the exception of your last category (which makes the whole set seem a bit random), actual historical turnout at the polls would seem to indicate the opposite.
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