tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354819.post115556832693141544..comments2023-10-28T10:12:35.184-04:00Comments on Big Tent: Our Democrat Friends Won't Like This OneStephenhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14620478836945715498noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354819.post-1155608321212629542006-08-14T22:18:00.000-04:002006-08-14T22:18:00.000-04:00I'm a bit perplexed by Barone's assertion and by T...I'm a bit perplexed by Barone's assertion and by Tom's embrace of it. he bases his argument on exactly one piece of evidence, a poll from 2004. Traditionally, Big tent tends to be hostile to polls. Most reasonable people are especially skeptical of one-off polls done around election time. After all, most of the time the party in opposition is going to be, well, oppositional. <BR/> So what we havedcathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09921385244556780254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6354819.post-1155572825115731802006-08-14T12:27:00.000-04:002006-08-14T12:27:00.000-04:00Barone rightly reveals how the Democrats constitue...Barone rightly reveals how the Democrats constituency has shifted over the past 40 years--but this is not a new finding. But his assertion that the Dems are comprised of "transnational secularists" is as much of a misleading stereotype as claiming that all evangelicals are snake-handling zealots. Barone knows his stuff but his distaste for Ned Lamont has clouded his judgement in this case. <BR/><Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com