As an example of a question like this:
"Public broadcasters should never receive moeny from the state." (I can't remember the exact wording.)
In the UK at least, whilst there is a set of people who are so anti-BBC they might vote "Strongly Agree" it is practically assured that most people will vote "Disagree" or "Strongly Disagree" because the number of people who believe that the BBC should get NO state funding is very small. The problem is, this question does nothing to discriminate (for example) between Tories, Lib Dems, Labour and SWP in the UK, but it will clearly put US Dems in the left and US Repubs on the right because this is something they have a sharp disagreement about.
In any case, it's meant to be global. The Tories haven't been all that far right traditionally.
i.e. The graph of the community is largely accurate, so long as you extrapolate up from 130 to a bigger number and realise there are enough outliers on the right to make a conversation.
Atlantic Review's experience is it's only those on the right who really read/comment on European issues (and I would argue on foreign affairs generally.) Since those are the diaries we actually look at, it follows that we would experience a more "rightward" dKos than we would expect.
Dammit, I should really write a diary for him, but I think his deadline is too tight at this time.
With that caveat:
Politics has to be relevant and comprehensible. Foreign politics, like domestic politics, are only meaningful in so far as they impact you as an individual. So berating citizens of one country for being disinterested in the politics of countries with minimal impact on their life is kinda beside the point. I doubt the British have much more awareness of German politics than Americans do. keep to the Fen Causeway
