Quote from Ricter:
It's easy to look up.
As I said, both parties have moved towards their respective poles, only the reps have moved considerably farther. This can be and has been measured and reported.
I don't know how you can say republicans have moved more to the right than dems have to the left. This is just one example.
By Melinda Henneberger
Democratic dissenters on the issue of abortion have made their case to the platform committee, arguing that the party should change its language enough to allow for some diversity of opinion on the matter and return to the âbig tentâ approach of the Clinton years.
The effort is probably doomed; NARAL Pro-Choice America President Nancy Keenan is on the committee, and those pushing for the change were happy just to get to testify; they werenât even allowed to do that four years ago.
This time around, Janet Robert, who founded Minnesotaâs progressive talk radio station AM 950, with talkers such as Ed Schultz and Thom Hartmann, was given seven minutes to make the case, and she used it to argue that the party simply cannot win back Congress without Democrats who differ from the â08 platform on this one issue. She cited a slew of stats, including a Gallup poll from last year in which 44 percent of Democrats said abortion should only be legal âin a few circumstances
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...d28038e-e0c6-11e1-8fc5-a7dcf1fc161d_blog.html
Some big tent, Ricter.
