Tuesday, February 16, 2010

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Quotation of the Day for February 16, 2010



"Even more consequential, though, is the fast-growing swath of voters who can summon no affinity for either party. As in other aspects of modern American life, brand allegiance in politics is at an all-time low; more than a third of Americans (and more than half of all Massachusetts voters) identify themselves as independents rather than as members of the blue team or the red. The most prevalent ideology of the era seems to be not liberalism nor conservatism so much as anti-incumbency, a reflexive distrust of whoever has power and a constant rallying cry for systemic reform."

- Matt Bai, "The Great Unalignment", New York Times, 20 January 2010.

[http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/magazine/24fob-wwln-t.html]

Submitted by: Chris Doherty
Jan. 26, 2010

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