Re: Little Issues "Building Up"

[James Haney]

fabio guillermo rojas wrote:

> You are misinterpreting the function of these little issues.
> Little issues don't "build up". Little issues tend to be signals to
> certain constituencies.

Well, the Contract with America was a set of 10 proposals, each supported by
something like 70 percent of voters (at the time and for a significant period
of time before 1994) that the Democrats refused to enact.  I would say that
it is often the case that when a new party comes to power after a long period
of opposition, there are usually quite a lot of popular reforms that they can
enact that have "built up" over time.

James