> Michael S: "The median voter is a mythical beast"
>
> [WS:] True, I used it only metaphorically. What I meant in empirical
> terms was the majority of the US voters who are infatuated with
> private business and highly suspicious of anything "public" and
> "social."
The picture is more complicated and interesting than that. Poll responses are always more or less contrived, simply by the multiple- choice format and the pollster's construction of the choices.
If Amurricans are highly distrustful of their Gummint, is that so stupid? Which of us on this list trusts it either?
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