I’m OK—You’re a Selfish, Partisan Hypocrite: A Hoover/ Economist Survey of Political Attitudes Finds Voters in no Mood for Postpartisan Lovey-Dovey


 

Publication Date: January 2008

Publisher: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace; News Corporation

Author(s): James W. Ceaser

Research Area: Politics

Keywords: Politics; Partisans; The Economist

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

A March 2008 survey sponsored by the Hoover Institution and the Economist magazine showed that seven in ten Americans want party leaders who will “come together and compromise,” yet it also found that partisan voters were quick to ascribe positive attributes to themselves and negative attributes to their opposing party. What many partisans want is not compromise itself but compromise on their terms.