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...Reagan revolution," observes Political Analyst Richard Scammon, "never moved as far as many on the left feared it would, or many on the right hoped it would." Just so. In American governance, the pendulum rarely makes radical swings. Change generally comes by evolution, not by sudden transformation. The only radical changes, the elections of Lincoln and F.D.R., for example, occur at times of severe national stress...
Washington's uproarious Richard Scammon, a political expert who loves the thunder of combat, wonders somewhat sadly if we have "become too sophisticated for ideology." The level of education, awareness and understanding increases geometrically with every election. Government programs cushion and encourage almost everyone in the nation in some way. Only a small fraction of the population is now outside the system, a phenomenon that tends to discourage boat rockers. The farmers in trouble are not penniless tenants on somebody else's land; they are farm owners, capitalists who risked and lost, which is part of the game, no matter...
...Richard Scammon, a seasoned political analyst, says the malady is old-fashioned "ivory toweritis." The intellectuals and their allies in politics and journalism have got farther above ground level than ever before, he insists. They do not feel the raw emotions of plain people, even though they frequently journey to the outlands to inspect the species. The experts are engrossed in telling the voters what they ought to believe and do, not in listening to what is on their minds...
RICHARD M. SCAMMON, political analyst, director of the Elections Research Center and editor of America Votes...
Richard M. Scammon, Director...