"Pete Snell" wrote in message
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Ed Huntress wrote:

Speaking of interesting things coming from the UK, the BBC is running a
great radio series about people voting against their own interests,
called "Turkeys Voting for Christmas." The first one is about populist
voters in the US. Sometimes it takes an outsider to see clearly what's
going on here, like de Toqueville's _Democracy in America_:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8474611.stm


Thanks for that Ed. Looks very interesting.

Pete

You're welcome, Pete. BTW, if you want to hear the radio show (15 min.),
which adds a bit to the article, you have two hours (as of roughly 2:22 PM
EST) to hear it, before they replace it with Episode 2:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qgyfc

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Ed Huntress