The Leonard Lopate Show: Polls, Power, and Democracy

Polls, Power, and Democracy

Political strategist Douglas Schoen believes that exit polls are among the most effective ways of bringing about democratic change. In The Power of the Vote, he explains how sophisticated polling and technological advances have revolutionized American politics. He also makes a few predictions for 2008.

The Power of the Vote is available for purchase at amazon.com

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Jeffrey Slott from Queens, NY

Move On has been dragging the Democratic party to the left? What reactionary garbage.
We don't have any more influence with the Democratic party than any other organization has. We may be more adept in using the Internet to our political advantage than other institutions but that doesn't necessarily mean any political party will fall in line behind us.
Your guest makes us sound like the bogeyman "Russkie Commies" that in the fifties McCarthy was whipping everyone into a paranoid frenzy over.
Your guest is no "centrist", but even if he sincerely believes he is, that doesn't mean he speaks for other centrists.

Apr. 10 2007 12:37 PM

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