Sunday, November 07, 2004

Voting against one's interests

Much has been made of people in the "heartland" voting against their economic self interest. Clearly many did. Did it tip the elction? I'm not so sure.

But many people vote against their economic self interest. Take all those rich Hollywood actors. Clearly they benefit disproportionally from all those tax cuts. We don't give them a hard time for voting against their pocketbooks. They too vote for moral values (anti-war etc.) over checkbook values.

The difference is that no matter who is in the White House, Rob Reiner will always be rich. And he knows that.

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