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How Conservative Columnist George Will Lies With Statistics

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Obdicut (Now with 2% less brain)1/27/2013 12:45:42 pm PST

re: #355 erik_t

Speaking frankly, there was also the problem of New York City being located in a place with winter. I’m not sure it would have collapsed into quite the same morass of fringe goobers if our financial center were in, say, Atlanta.

I think it would have because the ideological non-voters weren’t really open to conversion by the ones who wanted to engage with the political process. I guess it could have split in a semi-organized fashion, but I bet that friction would have been too much.

One thing it really taught me is the need for community organizers. There were a lot of normal-but-fed-up people there, the problems they were complaining about were real, but it was just so disorganized and so full of people who thought that expressing themselves was the ne plus ultra of political action.