On 11/13/06, C. Hatton Humphrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yeah and if it hadn't been so late at night I would have spelled it > right as well ;) > > The practice of politics is always a balancing game to please as many > people as possible at a given point in time. >
I dunno. The majority of the country is moderate or centrist. So why do so many politicians pay us mere lip service, while catering more to their base, which tends to lean farther right or left? The answer can be found in voting demographics. Far right's and far left's may represent only 40% of the country...but 90+% of them vote. Rally your base, win the election. Generally, they can take for granted a certain percentage of the independents who vote. What they sometimes overlook though is the potential for the independents to rally should things get too far one way or the other. Just ask Rove and the Republican senators and representatives who are suddenly without a job. -- When I was young I wondered what could ever drive a man to want to kill....and it scares the shit right out of me to know that I don't have to wonder still. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:220517 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
