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interesting

Hypothesis: most supporters of tackling terrorism rather than appeasement would generally vote for whatever the smaller-taxation, less-interventionist party on offer is.

In Spain, and in the US, this means that the anti-war people probably wouldn't have been natural supporters of the party in government anyway. I wonder how much the "ETA is prime suspect" bit damaged the Spanish government, rather than their pro-coalition stance?

The really interesting thing is going to be watching what happens in the next UK general election, where a high-intervention, high-tax party went to war... maybe the (non)-liberal democrats will pick up all the anti-war votes? (polls aren't suggesting it at the moment)

Emma

by a reader on Mon, 03/15/2004 - 11:28

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