On Sun, 15 May 2005 00:16:57 -0400, JDG wrote > At 07:15 PM 5/14/2005 -0700, you wrote: > > Liberals 17% > > > >As you can see, the Liberals *as defined by the Pew report* are the > >largest bloc. The "mainstream," one might say. > > Shirley, you can't be serious?
The Pew numbers show that "left-leaning" or "left-leaning/centrist/ unaffiliated" is the mainstream, don't they? Certainly one cannot argue from this data that conservatism is mainstream -- it shows that 71 percent of Americans are not conservative. Those in possession of conservative beliefs appear to be in the minority by a margin that if applied to voting results would be called a "landslide." It seems to me that one cannot assume that people vote for candidates because they share their political views. Seems crazy, doesn't it? Raises the question of why a whole lot of people in the mainstream vote for politicians whose political views are close to marginal. How does one go about persuading people to vote for candidates with whom they fundamentally disagree? Politics is quite mysterious. Nick _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
