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Wednesday, December 06, 2006

National: Apples and Orangutans

Lee Drutman, in this Boston Daily News Tribune article, has his knickers in a twist over independent voters. Or is it moderate voters? And what's a moderate voter anyway? Oh, those are the dumb voters.... Hey, Lee, keep your shirt on, will ya?

"Voting-behavior scholarship also consistently shows that middle-of-the-road voters tend on average to be the least-informed and least-interested voters. This matters because it suggests another interpretation of what happened -- that among those who know and who care the least about politics, those who lean Democrat turned out, while those who lean Republican stayed home. And the true independents -- who tend to be the least informed of all -- most likely made up their mind at the last minute based on a whim that could have just as easily gone the other way (if they voted at all)...."


Apparently the Pew Research Center has the same disease, witness their analysis from just after the election:
"Centrists Deliver for Democrats - In an election that proved to be a referendum on Bush and Iraq, political independents cast the deciding votes"

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Nancy, the link to the Daily News Tribune article doesn't seem to work, and I can't find that article searching their site. Would like to read it, if possible. Thanks.