Elayne Riggs' Journal (for Leah)

Thursday, September 02, 2004

Disillusionment Begetting Disenfranchisement

My days have been busy enough that I have less desire than ever to be angry in the evenings, so I haven't been watching RepubliCon, although I'm just now starting to catch up with some really terrific commentary on the proceedings. I highly recommend Digby's Tough Guy and Ezra Klein's September Surprise, both of which make good points about how the more macho and vicious and arrogant and fratboy-like politicians act, the more they turn off sensible female voters from the process of voting itself-- for which a good case can be made that this may just be the Republicans' goal.

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