Saturday, October 23, 2004
Also via Professor Bainbridge, here's an amusing article by a Slate reporter who dawned the gear of the "other side" and saw what it was like to be an outsider on each wing of California politics. Anecdotal and entertaining. I'm guessing there are a lot of closet Republicans out there who will be voting for quiet vindication and vengeance come election day.
Political Poseur - Pretending to be a Republican in Blue California. By Richard Rushfield
As a political and journalistic experiment, I decided to see how people who live in primarily one-party areas would react when faced with a living, breathing member of the opposition. I appointed myself an ambassador to bridge the Red-Blue divide and ventured into each side's territory dressed in the T-shirt, campaign button, and tote bag of the other. (A baseball cap, I decided, pushed the ensemble one step over the line, making me look a raving nut about to start yelling obscenities.)
For four days, I wandered Republican areas in a Kerry-Edwards shirt and button and loitered in the heart of Democratic country in styles by Bush-Cheney '04...
