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Monday, March 03, 2003
Math for snobs...
Peggy Noonan let's us in on why she became a Republican. Democrats are snobs.
There is another problem. You have become the party of snobs. You have become the party of Americans who think they're better than other Americans.
...and Peggy points out another problem for Democrats:
All of it came together bit by bit, and I started to become a conservative, and in time a Republican. And for the very reasons that my father was a Democrat.
Not a word of what I am saying is new. You've heard stories like this before. But it is still fiercely pertinent to your fortunes, because the journey I describe was common. It was the journey millions and tens of millions of people were taking at the same time, in the same era, for the same reasons. By the '80s their numbers were massive. They were the ground troops of the Reagan revolution. They left the Democratic Party. They left you. Here's your problem: To this day they haven't come back.
At the risk of flaunting my math skills, acquired through fancy-pants book learnin', I thought I would help Peggy overcome that "fuzzy math" problem that seems endemic to Republicans:
1992 election
Clinton 44,909,806
Bush 39,104,550
1996 election
Clinton 44,300,236
Dole 36,985,693
2000 election
Gore 50,996,582
Bush 50,456,062
Just thought I would point that out to rural-jes'-common-folk-barefoot-and-pregnant-Upper-East-Side Peggy Noonan.
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