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Quotes About Conservative appeals

Jimmy Carter's pollster Pat Caddell understood how dangerous all this could prove to the Democratic coalition: blue-collar voters were vulnerable to conservative appeals because they were "no longer solely motivated by economic concerns—which have traditionally made them Democrats." Now that they feared "change in society" more than losing their place in the middle class, they were "one of the most vulnerable groups in the Democratic coalition.
~ Rick Perlstein
The values to which the conservative appeals are inevitably caricatured by the individuals designated to put them into practice.
~ Harold Rosenberg