Volume 39, Number 4 · February 13, 1992
Willie Horton's Message
By Thomas Byrne Edsall
Public Opinion in America: Moods, Cycles, and Swings
by James A. Stimson
Westview Press, 156 pp., $14.95 (paper)
The Reasoning Voter: Communication and Persuasion in Presidential Campaigns
by Samuel L. Popkin
University of Chicago Press, 291 pp., $19.95
The End of Realignment? Interpreting American Electoral Eras
edited by Byron E. Shafer
University of Wisconsin Press, 187 pp., $12.95 (paper)
The entry of Patrick Buchanan and David Duke into the campaign for the Republican nomination for president suggests a degree of dissatisfaction on the political right far more significant than the usual discontent among conservative Republican voters. Duke and Buchanan have been expressing the anger and frustration of an important part of the electorate—an anger and frustration that were turned against Jimmy Carter and Michael Dukakis when they ran for president but that now threaten the establishment forces of the Republican Party.
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