Who Are the Swing Voters?

Published: September 7, 2007, 4:00 pm

The top two things I love about being part of OpenLeft.com are (a) the challenging dialogue about issues and strategy, which I (almost) always really enjoy, and that I believe are urgently important discussions for the progressive movement to be having- the back-and-forth about how tough we should be on the Democrats, how we move from just electing Democrats to building truly progressive majorities; I really appreciate how Matt Stoller and others in the OpenLeft.com community really push me to defend my arguments and think things through; and (b) the brilliant analysis from Chris Bowers. I love Chris' thinking, because he has a strong perspective as a progressive, but is also not dogmatic about the way he analyzes numbers and trends. The latest piece of his that caught my eye was this one on the myth of conservative and Republican swing voters. Chris nails it. I've been working on elections since the 1980 cycle- looking at polling cross tabs, watching focus groups, asking

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