it's going to take more than a billion dollars to convince voters that there's a difference worth caring about this coming november in the us, and still, if voter participation hits the upper 50th percentile, that'll be considered legitimising. Nil aon leigheas ar an ngra ach posadh
given the general disgust with the direction of the country by overwhelmingly large majorities of people in the us, and the raw amount of cash which is going to be spent convincing people there's really something to vote for in coming months, i'd somehow expect more.
in any event, high 50's, low 60's, distinction without a difference... Nil aon leigheas ar an ngra ach posadh
Or to put it in different terms, in Western Europe the debate tends to be Left: move the system slightly to the right or leave it where it is vs. right move the system to the right a bit more. In the US it is move the system to the left, albeit to a position still to the right of where Western Europe is, or move it even further to the right.
funny how representative democracy can be...well...representative. Nil aon leigheas ar an ngra ach posadh
In any case your examples point to a separate problem for would be economically left wing voters in Europe - i.e. that their political representatives aren't able to bring themselves to fully get over their longstanding belief that left wing economic policies have to come with repression and dictatorship.
In decline? Certainly, has been for a long time. But still there are pockets of resistance. And there have also been other periods of decline followed by big come-backs. And my guess is that there will always be at least a dozen in parliament, no matter what the PS tries to do. Nil aon leigheas ar an ngra ach posadh
The differences between Clinton and Bush I or Clinton and Dole could be measured in micrometers.
My own fear is that the differences between Clinton II and McCain will be perceived the same way.
