On May 15, 2005, at 9:07 AM, Ronn!Blankenship wrote:
At 10:59 AM Sunday 5/15/2005, Nick Arnett wrote:
How does one go about persuading people to vote for candidates with whom
they fundamentally disagree? Politics is quite mysterious.
Perhaps it's because so often when people get to the polls they hold their noses and vote for the least objectionable of the available choices or the one they think is likely to either do the most for them personally or at least to do the least to harm them?
This does not appear to be the case. People often vote *against* their self-interest. This conundrum appears to be resolved by the understanding that people vote their identities, not their interests. The Republican party did a superior job in the past election of appealing to the middle in this way.
Dave
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