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Whose Majority?: A Democratic thesis and (a dollop of) wishful thinking.("The Emerging Democratic Majority")(Book Review)

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| December 09, 2002 | BARONE, MICHAEL | COPYRIGHT 2002 National Review, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

It seems a little unfair to comment on a book entitled The Emerging Democratic Majority a few months after its publication and a few weeks after an election in which the Republicans increased their majority in the House and secured a majority in the Senate. But that's a risk authors take when they write books predicting majorities for one party or the other. And anyway, in my judgment the 2002 election results do not necessarily disprove John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira's thesis. The scenario they set out, of a country evenly divided between the parties in 2000 becoming more Democratic because of the increasing size of Democratic-leaning constituencies, could still occur. It ...

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