Virginia Postrel, on her Dynamist Blog:
I told you so. The party that hates America will lose. The party that imagines no positive future, offers no "vision thing," will lose. The party that thinks it is better than the American people, that makes large segments of the voting public believe they are its enemy, that convinces people it wants the government to boss them around and destroy the things they love, will lose.
No need to change a word in 2004, in the software biz, we call that "code reuse."
I am going to flog her blog one more time here. I highly recommend both her "The Substance of Style" and "The Future and Its Enemies." I think all the regulars around here would probably agree with most everything in both of these books, even though we occupy different spots on the ideological compass.
Today her blog has a great post on drug testing in India -- there's comparative advantage for you! And The Party that Hates America Always Loses. And a real statistical look at the Gay Marriage numbers that bucks the CW something fierce. And a post with coffee and distributed decision making:
7-Eleven's coffee cup poll--coffee buyers could pick between Bush and Kerry cups--proved remarkably accurate: 51.08 percent for Bush, 48.92 percent for Kerry."Our popular vote was absolutely right on," Jim Keyes, the chain's head honcho, told the Dallas Morning News. "We sell a million cups of coffee every day, so our sample size was huge."