----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Seeberger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, December 20, 2005 10:35 PM Subject: Re: Defeat in Victory
> > <G> It's not all about you Dan!<G> > I was suggesting that perhaps you are missing that "most" of the > liberal posters here are espousing views that are more centrist than > you might think. OK. The idea that we went to war in Iraq in order to make money for oil companies is centralist? > >From where I'm viewing, a corner seems to have been turned in recent > months and "most" people in the US share opinions that are more > leftish than they were over the last few years. Maybe....but it isn't really clear. After the enormous blundering of this administration, as well as the scandals of the House and Senate Republican leadership, one would think that 2006 will be 1994 all over again. But, Bush is bouncing back somewhat in the polls now, and the Democrats still can't seem to get their act together. Plus, there are only about 40-50 House seats that are in play, so it would take an overwhelming victory by the Democrats to regain control of the House. So, a year from now, we may or may not see a significant shift. I'm hoping that we will. But I think arguments that we went to war to give US oil companies control of the Mid-East oilfields, that the Republic is on it's last legs, etc. are ones that I've rarely seen. Since I left Mad-Town, 23 years ago, even living in Connecticut, I've seen it at a Dennis Kupechne (sp) meeting I was invited to, here, on Culture, and on the walls at colleges my girls went to. I haven't even seen the question asked in polls, so I don't have numbers, but I'd guess less than 10% nationwide believe this (~3.5x Nadar's top vote %). As far as I can tell, that it the "centralist position" that Andrew Paul referred to. It is certainly the mode position of recent political posts here. Take my posts out, even allowing for the weighed average including your posts, and I'd argue that position is the mean of recent posts here. Now, one might ask if I think it is the mean of the positions of the people on this list. I don't think so, but that's harder to measure. So, I didn't refer to that, I merely referred to what was written in recent (say since Gautam and JDG left) political posts. Dan M. _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
