Wired but weird.(Devil in the Details)(Brief Article)
American Prospect, The, September, 2003
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LET YOUR MIND GO BACK in time, back to the unfathomably distant past--back, say, two and a half years ago. It was a different world then, but Mark Penn, the Democratic Leadership Council's (DLC) redoubtable pollster, had it all down cold.
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The reason the Democrats lost the 2000 election, Penn argued, was that they'd failed to win the support of "wired workers." This was Penn's shorthand for workers in the new economy, who routinely went online with no trepidation and for whom Al Gore's old-style populism had little to offer. Never mind that Gore carried nearly every ...
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