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Topic: Liberalism on life support.
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Sat 06/13/09 10:04 AM



What a stretch this thread is. All the demographics point the opposit direction. Most young people are either liberal or independant. the future does not look good for the regressive right. The people with money of course support the right wing think tanks and institutions they have a vested interest in maintaining the status quo. They have fox news and Clear channel radio that is a given but we have the future.


I don't know that you are right exactly but I do know I want to be long dead before 'social'conservatives ever have too much power.

Personally I think the farther to the right, the right goes, the less likely they will ever have too much control. So I say go for it. The same goes for the left.
By now, the political class is familiar with the trends Teixeira highlighted. The mountain west turned blue. Democrats won the industrial Midwest. Hispanics and youth voted two-to-one for Democrats. Nearly every black voter backed Barack Obama. Democrats won college graduates for the first time since Ronald Reagan came to Washington.

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The nation's two big demographic trends, the browning of America and the educating of America, are boding badly for Republicans. That's the horizon of American politics today. But the catch about looking over the horizon is that you can't be quite sure of what you've seen until you get there
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2009/03/for_dems_demographics_are_not.html


The more interesting number are the number of people who didn't vote. Of the 208,323,000 eligible voters 131 million Americans voted leaving some 36% not voting or 74,996,280 not voting and 1,862,347 voted for third party candidates.

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Sat 06/13/09 10:21 AM

The more interesting number are the number of people who didn't vote. Of the 208,323,000 eligible voters 131 million Americans voted leaving some 36% not voting or 74,996,280 not voting and 1,862,347 voted for third party candidates.


What's sad here is I think that number is actually considered pretty high.

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