The Day After

I'm glad the election is over...now we can concentrate on more important things like the NFL, college football, and the Fall TV schedule :) I was getting tired of the never ending news coverage of the campaign. They could have handed me the $500 million or so they spent and I would have been glad to flip the coin for them.

I don't get Ralph Nader, his main reason for running he says is that because the two parties are too much alike. I wonder if he have read about the Median Voter Theorem. They will always be alike Ralph! A strategy to be more different than your opponent is a strategy for losing. Of course both parties start at the extreme end of the ideological continuum to get their party's nomination, then in the general election they move to the center to get the median voter and win the election. The republicans this time around have a more attractive bundle of issues for the median voter, much like Bill Clinton had to offer during his two terms. The base will always be there. It's the center that's always up for grabs.