Correspondence
Correspondence THE BIG OIL CANDIDATE AFTER READING "A Manchurian Remake" (Aug. 9), I want to thank John Podhoretz for saving me eight dollars. I enjoyed the original Manchurian Candidate, and was...
...At every level, the ideological differences between Democrats and Republicans are considerably greater than in the past...
...in 1960 and 1976, every big state was a battleground...
...KEVIN T. CARROLL Central Islip, NY THE WEEKLY STANDARD welcomes letters to the editor...
...That's fine...
...Contra Labash's sneering article, it appears that the hip-hop community's get-out-the-vote effort has been quite successful thus far...
...You know, do what you want...
...To wit: Just what do straight and gay couples call themselves in polite society...
...While the American public is no more polarized than it was 30 or 40 years ago, the two parties are much more polarized, and this shift has had profound consequences for American politics...
...All letters should be addressed: Correspondence Editor THE WEEKLY STANDARD 1150 17th St., NW, Suite 505 Washington, DC 20036...
...But it sounds like they might as well have saved us the pretense and simply titled it The Halliburton Swindle...
...Kerry should not overlook them so casually...
...Liberal Republicans and conservative Democrats are both endangered species...
...As Podhoretz observes, such heavy-handedness can rob a movie of its satirical quality...
...2) has at last captured the "gay marriage" debate for The Weekly Standard...
...ALAN ABRAMOWITZ Atlanta, GA THAT'S OUR WORD TOD LINDBERG'S "Husbands and Wives" (Aug...
...Like all such tempests in a teapot, it is a matter of semantics...
...WILLIAM O'NEILL Chicago, IL NOT DEPLOYED IN 1990S...
...KYLE BALLARD Hacienda Heights, CA PARTY POLARIZATION MICHAEL ROBINSON and Susan Ellis do a good job of debunking some myths about growing ideological polarization in the United States ("Purple America," Aug...
...But I just don't want it forced upon me...
...I'm just opposed to changing this whole definition of marriage," she said...
...I enjoyed the original Manchurian Candidate, and was initially excited to see the updated version...
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...Conservative areas of the country have been moving toward the Republican party, while liberal areas have been moving toward the Democratic party...
...Today, California, New York, Texas, and illinois (among other big states) are generally considered safe for one party or the other...
...PETER BYRNES JR...
...This is not simply a result of redistricting...
...But according to the Economist, the network has already registered more than one million young people...
...almost all of the change has occurred between redistrict-ing cycles...
...In addition, there's nothing particularly clever or innovative about depicting an oil company that secretly manipulates American politics...
...16/Aug...
...Letters will be edited for length and clarity and must include the writer's name, address, and phone number...
...I just feel like [gay couples] should have their own word...
...Call it something else...
...How quickly the Massachusetts senator forgets that hundreds of thousands of American servicemen were deployed to Southwest Asia in 1990, Somalia in 1992, Haiti in 1994, Bosnia in 1995, and Kosovo in 1999...
...IN "GETTING OUT THE PHAT VOTE" (Aug...
...In the House of Representatives, the number of districts that are evenly balanced between the two major parties has declined by almost a third since 1980...
...He suggests the network has failed to register its target demographic in significant numbers...
...For many people, indeed, the essence of the gay marriage debate is a question of language and semantics, as Lindberg's essay trenchantly noted...
...But they miss, or at least understate, one very real phenomenon—an ideological realignment of the Democratic and Republican parties that has affected political elites, activists, and even rank-and-file voters...
...When Inskeep asked the woman if she opposed gay marriage, she replied that she opposed the appropriation of the word "marriage" most of all...
...WILLIAM KRISTOL'S excellent editorial "The 9/10 Democrats" (July 19) cites John Kerry's comment that the 1990s were a decade when "young Americans were not deployed" in military operations abroad...
...Severna Park, MD HIP-HOP VOTERS, UNITE...
...9), Matt Labash paints a misleading picture of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network...
...Was this really the best Hollywood could do...
...A recent exchange between National Public Radio's Steve Inskeep and a policeman's wife from suburban Ohio reflected Lindberg's argument nicely...
...As a result of this ideological realignment, there are fewer battleground states in presidential elections...
...While less costly than Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, the wars and missions of the 1990s entailed major sacrifices, too...
Vol. 9 • August 2004 • No. 47
