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Junior Chimp
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« on: December 02, 2010, 12:27:03 PM » |
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We've heard how Bush should have won by a landslide in 2004, but garnered only 51%. Or how Obama should have won by an even bigger landslide in 2008 with the financial crisis, but received only 53%. (Indeed, 46% for McCain was quite impressive in my opinion.) Perhaps, and perhaps unfortunately, we won't be seeing more landslides a la Johnson/Nixon/Reagan anytime soon, for either party.
I'd say that this is evidence of the fact that there are less and less real independents whose votes can and do change, and more and more partisans on both sides. Partisans who say "nothing could make me vote [other party]". But why is our political system growing more and more partisan, and more polarized?
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