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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zoltan! who wrote (7193)	10/5/1998 1:37:00 AM
From: jbe	Respond to of 67261

On Dems & Reps, in Congress and in the population at large. It may be that on the Clinton issue, at least, Congressional Republicans and Democrats occupy clearly antithetical and partisan positions. I rather doubt that the same thing will prove to be true of Republican and Democratic registered voters. The Washington Post carried a very interesting feature Sunday describing a voters' survey conducted by the Post together with Harvard University and the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. The basic conclusion of the survey, which was concluded in mid-August, was that both parties are "fractured" into a number of different sub-groups, with "values at odds with those espoused by their party's leaders." The survey identifies the following sub-groups among the Democrats: Determined Liberals (the kind of Democrat "Republicans love to hate") Helping Hand Democrats ("God-fearing," socially conservative) Discouraged White Democrats New Generation Democrats Libertarian Democrats ..and among the Republicans: Liberal Republicans (34% voted for Clinton in 1996, 12% for Perot) Big Business Republicans Big Government Republicans Religious Conservatives (Higher voting rate than any other group; 57% consider Lewinsky scandal "very important" -- more than any other group.) The article also provides graphs showing the position of the various groups on such contentious issues as abortion and welfare reform, there is only about a 10% difference between Republicans and Democrats as a whole on the "liberal-conservative scale." But in each case, some Democratic sub-groups are on the conservative side, and some Republican ones on the liberal side. And they switch, according to the particular issue. "Helping Hand Democrats," for example, are on the "liberal" side on welfare reform, but on the "conservative" side on abortion. And so forth. Check it out. washingtonpost.com