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Debate: Does Mike Huckabee's Failure Represent a Shift to the Left in American Politics? (view source)
Revision as of 14:13, March 5, 2008
, 14:13, March 5, 2008→No
I don't think so - I think it may reflect a fear on the part of American voters that the line between the sacred and the secular has become increasingly fuzzy in recent years, and a concomitant desire to maintain a certain amount of distance between the political and the religious. Seeing as no side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on faith, and how no faith has a monopoly on viable policy, I'm not sure if Huckabee's failure to resonate with masses of voters says anything about left/right divides. [[User:AliceBG|AliceBG]] 08:55, 5 March 2008 (EST)
I don't think so - I think it may reflect a fear on the part of American voters that the line between the sacred and the secular has become increasingly fuzzy in recent years, and a concomitant desire to maintain a certain amount of distance between the political and the religious. Seeing as no side of the political spectrum has a monopoly on faith, and how no faith has a monopoly on viable policy, I'm not sure if Huckabee's failure to resonate with masses of voters says anything about left/right divides. [[User:AliceBG|AliceBG]] 08:55, 5 March 2008 (EST)
:But if, as you claim, neither left or right has a monopoly on faith, surely we should disregard the faith issue. What is almost certain is that the next president will be to the left of GWB and many conservatives insist that McCain is not a conservative, merely a liberal Republican, perhaps even more left than Clinton. So, is this representative of any shift in political leanings of the American electorate? (I would challenge the originally quoted statement about religion monopoly. While it might not be a monopoly, the right is far more comfortable with combining politics with religion than the left.) [[User:Ajkgordon|Ajkgordon]] 09:13, 5 March 2008 (EST)