Political reality and the digital divide.

The question is why do people vote against their own interests?

Booman:
"The shame of it is that the very people that should have been least inclined to vote for Lieberman were the one's that turned out for him. They will turn out for Hillary, too, and for the same reasons, if we do not figure out how to build a bridge that crosses the digital divide. We simply have to bring our progressive message into the inner city and find a way to increase the amount of information that is reaching there."

"Connecticut is the richest state in the country and you might expect all those rich people to be Republicans or centrist Lieberman-style Democrats."

"On the other hand, you would not expect low income workers, minorities, and urbanites to support someone that favors privatizing Social Security and gutting affirmative action."

"The rich vote for the liberal, the poor vote for the centrist. What's it all about?"

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