Supposedly, there's no static majority—but Palin found one
(NEWSER) - Bristol Palin's near-win on Dancing With the Stars is just another example of the fact that, in the US, "the spoils, perhaps more often than we like to think, go not to the majority (remember Al Gore?) but to the most fervent minority," writes Neal Gabler on Politico . But even though Palin's DWTS stint "provided a veritable model of how our political system operates," it simultaneously challenged a premise of democracy: The idea that, as political theorist Robert Dahl said, there is no such thing as a static majority; rather, majorities shift as issues shift. More»
