Posted by
emjayne on Friday, August 08, 2008 12:40:39 PM
Declarations by Peggy Noonan. "You're in a plane and your're flying over the campaign at a level of about 10,000 ft and you look down and see. Not much has changed....
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There's a thing out there and it's big, and latent, and somehow always taken into account and always ignored, and political professionals always assume they understand it. It has been called many things the past 50 years, "the silent center," "the silent majority," "the coalition," "the basis." The idea of it has evolved as its composition has evolved, but the fact that it is big, and relatively silent, and somehow always latent, maintains. And watching the McCain event--vroom vroom [50,000 Harleys] ---one got the sense it is perhaps beginning to pay attention to the campaign. I see it as the old America, and if and when it reasserts itself, the campaign will shift, and in ways you can even see from 10,000 feet."
The dots in the center take the place of the rest of the article...worth reading. You can all find Peggy Noonan so I don't need to put in a link, right?