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Mary K. Trumble Austin...
David and Margaret Austin...
...view Washington, so highly educated and amply endowed with the taxpayers' money, as an arrogant and isolated state within a state, condescending toward the rest of the country, enamored of itself and puffed up by its social pretensions and inside rituals. That legend now has some scholarly support. Austin Ranney, a resident political scientist at the American Enterprise Institute, points out that the losers in past elections have often blamed the electorate. In their despair they have decided that the voters were "a bunch of jerks," not "the good peasants and yeomen" of yore. This time, says Ranney...
Kieren Metts Austin...
...Austin Ranney, editor of a study of debates for the American Enterprise Institute, believes that these factors are important issues. His view: "We don't say, 'I believe in these 20 things and Reagan believes in 17 of them and Mondale in 14, so Reagan wins 17-14.' We're trying to determine what kind of people they are as human beings, how they will respond in times of crisis." Debates in their present format, he concedes, are "by no means ideal" for facilitating that judgment, but "what other chance do we have to compare them...