posted 04-17-2001 11:53 AM            

(from showbiz.com who got it from GQ)

posted 04-18-2001 11:46 AM            

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Originally posted by foofies:
what are Ben's politics anyway? anyone know? i know he supported hillary clinton, and came w/ matt to support a living wage for Harvard workers, but don't know anything beyond that. guess i gotta buy GQ.

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posted 04-18-2001 12:23 PM            

That's a scarey thought considering he never even read the PGL rules before giving everyone advice on their bio's . Let's just hope he does a lot of growing up before then !

posted 04-19-2001 07:51 AM            

Why do you think it's so close?

Because there was, like, a lack of interest, since contemporary politics means moving toward the center. So what happens is you have both parties scrambling for centrist voters. It turns into, unfortunately, kind of a prom-king personality contest. Both parties were less than effective in characterizing the difference between the two of them.

It's also close because there's a real division in this country in terms of what people feel like. It's not enough to build a national party, a national coalition. People have very different priorities in very different parts of the world. You have working Democratic union Catholics, like [those] where I grew up in Boston, who don't believe in abortion but who believe in unions. You have all kinds of different agendas. It's remarkable to me that the two-party system can maintain itself in such a heterogeneous country.