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| | Count Me Out | The Agonist |
 | | I and most of the people I know who were active in "get out the vote" campaigns last year feel no motivation at this point to vote Democratic next time, except for decent local candidates, and very tired of being lectured to, rebuked and yet taken for granted by centrists. |
 | | In some instances, inherited them from their parents." And then, besides the Democrats and the Republicans, there are the swing voters, the people in the middle--except that Rove hates that frame of reference, with its implication that politics entails persuading wishy-washy centrists by offering them broad, vague, moderate sentiments. |
 | | In 1971 he wrote a landmark memo for the United States Chamber of Commerce in which he advocated a sweeping, coordinated and long-term effort to spread conservative ideas on college campuses, in academic journals and in the news media. |
| agonist.org /story/2005/3/28/105440/006 (3133 words) |
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