Thursday, January 15, 2004
HUH? Amidst its usual rantings and ramblings about the "angry left," Best of the Web noted the following:
number of presidential terms between 1968 and the present: 9.
number of those terms occupied by a Democrat: 3
Chances are that the presence of something 33% of the time is equivalent to its more or less permanent absence: 0.
The rise of the Angry Left over the past year follows the erosion of the Democratic Party from New Deal majority party to its present sorry state. This was a long process, dating back at least to the election of 1968, when the Dems more or less permanently lost the White House.Now everyone knows that since I voted for Bush in 2000, I must be stupid. But even stupid folks might want to quibble with the notion that the Democrats of "more or less permanently lost the White House" since 1968. Let's see:
number of presidential terms between 1968 and the present: 9.
number of those terms occupied by a Democrat: 3
Chances are that the presence of something 33% of the time is equivalent to its more or less permanent absence: 0.
