Jens 'n' Frens
Idle thoughts of a relatively libertarian Republican in Cambridge, MA, and whomever he invites. Mostly political.
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." -- Daniel Webster
Thursday, November 07, 2002 :::
The assumption that a woman will be to the left of a similar man might also suggest that the bump for women would be more likely for Republicans than for Democrats in the ward committee elections.
If you assume the primary voters are centrist, that works. That likely depends on the election year. In 2000, Massachusetts had almost as many voters in the Republican primary as in the Democratic, so there were probably a lot of McCain-voting independent types; the Democrats might have had more extremists. I expect that the voters in the 2004 Republican primary will be more commited, therefore presumably more conservative, than those from the 2000 primary.
