Think there’s no difference between the parties?
Recent U.S. Supreme Court rulings on abortion, school desegregation campaign finance reform and other issues touched off a spat of articles about the conservative shift on the court. And given the relatively young ages of the conservative members of the nation’s highest court (and of those who are serving on lower federal benches), the situation isn’t going to change for decades, if at all.
Think back to the 2000 presidential election. Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader was traveling around disdainfully claiming there wasn’t any difference between the Democratic Party and the Republican Party and their presidential candidates, Al Gore and George Bush respectively.
We wonder how many people who cast votes for Nader buy that argument now.