At 07:15 PM 5/14/2005 -0700, Dave Land wrote: >Right-leaning: > Enterprisers 9% > Social Conservatives 11% >Pro-Government Conservatives 9% > >Centrist/Unaffiliated: > Upbeats 11% > Disaffecteds 9% > Bystanders 10% > >Left-leaning: > Conservative Democrats 14% > Disadvantaged Democrats 10% > Liberals 17%
And Nick Arnett 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? First of all, that is not what Dave Land proposed. He proposed that "17%" was the mainstream. Secondly, it appears that the Pew Report rather arbitrarily grouped things into threes. If one considers "Conservative Democrats" to be part of the "Moderate/Centrist" bloc, the analysis changes quite dramatically. >How does one go about persuading people to vote for candidates with whom they >fundamentally disagree? I'm sure that much of it has to do prioritizing key issues. For example, many people would never vote for a pro-segregation candidate or a pro-baby-killing candidate, regardless of the candidates' views on other issues. On the other hand, I know that if an election were held in 2002, I would probably have voted for a pro-choice pro-Iraq-war candidate over a pro-life anti-Iraq-war candidate. So, in that sense, I would have voted for a candidate with whom I very fundamentally disagreed. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
