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Blue Blockers
By Brian Kennedy 02/26/2003
Inspector Gregory: "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
Sherlock Holmes: "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
"The dog did nothing in the night-time."
"That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.
- "The Adventure of Silver Blaze" by Arthur Conan Doyle
In keeping with time-honored tradition, President Bush last month stood before Congress to deliver the State of the Union Address. Those Democrats who at this early date spend their days traveling the back roads of Iowa campaigning to be Bush's opponent in the 2004 responded by haranguing the President on healthcare, tax cuts, and spending priorities and expressing skepticism about unilateral action in Iraq.
However, curiously breaking with their tradition, not one of the Democrats competing in the Iowa Caucuses took notable exception to one of the President's most far-reaching national security initiatives, the deployment of a strategic missile defense system - a curiosity that may have much to do with the electoral map and the changing nature of campaign wedge issues.
The colors of the 2000 electoral map illustrated in stark relief that the nation's partisan divisions are not solely cultural, but also geographic (http://www.techcentralstati on.com/1051/defensewrapper.jsp?P ID=1051-350&CID=1051-022603D)
Blue Blockers
By Brian Kennedy 02/26/2003
Inspector Gregory: "Is there any other point to which you would wish to draw my attention?"
Sherlock Holmes: "To the curious incident of the dog in the night-time."
"The dog did nothing in the night-time."
"That was the curious incident," remarked Sherlock Holmes.
- "The Adventure of Silver Blaze" by Arthur Conan Doyle
In keeping with time-honored tradition, President Bush last month stood before Congress to deliver the State of the Union Address. Those Democrats who at this early date spend their days traveling the back roads of Iowa campaigning to be Bush's opponent in the 2004 responded by haranguing the President on healthcare, tax cuts, and spending priorities and expressing skepticism about unilateral action in Iraq.
However, curiously breaking with their tradition, not one of the Democrats competing in the Iowa Caucuses took notable exception to one of the President's most far-reaching national security initiatives, the deployment of a strategic missile defense system - a curiosity that may have much to do with the electoral map and the changing nature of campaign wedge issues.
The colors of the 2000 electoral map illustrated in stark relief that the nation's partisan divisions are not solely cultural, but also geographic (http://www.techcentralstati on.com/1051/defensewrapper.jsp?P ID=1051-350&CID=1051-022603D)