Nathan

Carl Pope: Taking the Initiative - Sierra Club: "This country, on most matters, is not divided down the middle -- on almost every topic there are solid majorities of Americans who constitute public opinion, and an even larger percentage of the public whose views on an issue are relatively close to the center. On politics, true, we are Karl Rove's famous 49 percent nation. But as the Sierra Club discovers every time we do a focus group or a poll, that's not because Americans think the parties are dramatically different. It's because they think the parties are disappointingly much the same, and they end up picking in almost even numbers what they see as the lesser of the evils. "