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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve
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To: TraderGreg who wrote (4270)12/2/2000 11:28:39 AM
From: CYBERKEN  Read Replies (1) of 6710
 
<<In 1912, Wilson got a rocking 41.8% and in 1968 Nixon got 43.4%.>>

And both were comfortably re-elected even though Wilson's administration was a total disaster and Nixon's was rocked by scandal. With the American version of the Stalinist "Cult of the Personality' neatly deposed by the constitution, the Dems acquire a difficult image problem. Liberalism just doesn't sell anymore, but they have to somehow keep their whacko left-wing base. Just another interesting factor in our unpredictable political evolution.

The polarization is definitely real, and this election, no matter how it's finally resolved, was a complete bust for the public. The next step, IMO, is for the dissonance to gradually resolve. And anyone's prediction at this point is purely speculative...
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