The analogist: Jim Chapin, 1942-2002. (Devil In The Details).
American Prospect, The, November, 2002 by Meyerson, Harold
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"WHAT IF YOU GAUGED THE two sides in the Civil War just by looking at the two generals in command at Antietam?" Jim Chapin asked at some point during the 2000 campaign. "McClellan was more pro-slavery than Lee. If that's all you focused on--not the armies, not the governments, not the states and their politics--you might conclude there was no difference between the North and the South."
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Chapin's point had nothing to do with the Civil War. It was that parties matter, that the then-embattled Al Gore, whatever his flaws, was responsive to a different set of ...
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