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Posted by trainsarefun on Tue May 26 13:58:53 2009, in response to Re: Hunters Point vs LIRR Round 1, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue May 26 13:28:30 2009. Taking center as electoral center +/- 1 SD, I think that the President very probably isn't "very left leaning". I think that he is within 1-2SD on most issues, and there is an symmetry on certain issues which goes "left".But I am also uncomfortable mapping broad discourse into the narrow left-right axes. Take some recent issues, e.g., the bailouts. Far left and far right were opposed to those. But many somewhere in between approved. (As to most of it, I personally didn't). The Supreme Court's overruling of Michigan v. Jackson today? In many nations which are electorally to the left of the US, they don't suppress unlawfully procured evidence, and indeed some on the left, including veritable geniuses like Guido Calabresi, a founder of the law and economics analysis (and Judge Sotomayor's colleague), argue that suppressing unlawfully procured evidence as we do here in fact leads to more violations of privacy because now to say that something was unlawful means that you are probably allowing a criminal to go free. But then the mainstream left position in this country is that the rule is a sound one. (Personally, I am not in favor of the rule). What do you put down something like President's Obama's 'cap and trade' program as? Etc. So I generally like to say, instead of "Mr. X is very left/right/center", that "Mr. X agrees with Ms. Y on a, with Mr. Z on b, etc.". To be sure, I find it interesting that if you find out some people's view on one issue, you have an excellent forecast of other views, but that's not always the case. (E.g., I think that the trimester policy in Roe v Wade is fairly sound, which for most tends to predict support for affirmative action, which I oppose). You have some people who are fairly libertarian here who support mass transit. Etc. So I really don't like these broad brush approaches. |
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