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Tuesday, January 23, 2007

From little acorns....

Here's a nice plumb from Fruits and Votes from Friday called Arnold and the post-partisan blues Planted by Professor Matthew Søberg Shugart, Head Orchardist:

"....In an era when the percentage of independent voters in the state has risen from 9% in 1990 to 19% now, the percentage of independent or third-party members of our state and national legislative bodies has remained barely above zero...."

1 comment:

MSS said...

Thanks much for the link!

But given the name of my blog, should that idea be referred to as a "plum" rather than a "plumb." :-)

Just to clarify, I am not particualrly favorable towards more independents (i.e. nonpartisans) in eletions and office, but to more parties. I elaborate this general point in a series of earlier posts in the PR-USA block in which the Arnold post was located.