At 07:52 AM 5/16/2005 -0700, Nick wrote: >"Taken together, the three Democratic groups make up a larger share of >registered voters than do the three Republican groups (44% vs. 33%)."
But the Pew Center seems to have arbitrarily assigned "conservative Democrats" to the "left-leaning" bloc, and further arbitrarily decided to come up with three groups for each of "left", "center", and "right". For example, 80% of the "Upbeats" voted for Bush, but that group gets assigned to the "center", rather than the "right." If you correct for this and move "conservative Democrats" to the "center" and move "Upbeats" to the right, you reach much different conclusions. JDG _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
