Scheiber mentions letters supporting Miers from Corner readers as though they added evidence for a populist-elitist divide. My own mail does not suggest that most Corner readers are anti-anti-Miers, and I don’t think Kathryn has posted the pro-Miers mail because it is representative. (Please correct me if I’m mistaken, Kathryn.) But in any event, Corner readers are a kind of political elite too. They’re a small segment of the national population with an outsized influence on American politics because they care about it, and pay more attention to it, than most people.