THE WEEK

Arrrgh.

Note well: in 1964 the split ticket came of age. Great throats bellowed instructions from newspaper editorial columns on how to elect Tom (Dem.), Dick (Rep.), and Harry (Cons.). Political groups, “citizens’ committees,” invested buckets of coin in the same enterprise, and voters by the million waggled their finger from lever to lever, oblivious of party, like honey bees in a field of blossoms. If this development means that voters are voting less the party and more the man, or the man’s ideas, then 1) our politics must be judged capable of being conducted on much more sophisticated levels, and 2) the two major parties must sooner or later accommodate themselves to the broad ideological division of modern times.

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Arrrgh.

Note well: in 1964 the split ticket came of age. Great throats bellowed instructions from newspaper editorial columns on how to elect Tom (Dem.), Dick (Rep.), and Harry (Cons.). Political groups, “citizens’ committees,” invested buckets of coin in the same enterprise, and voters by the million waggled their finger from lever to lever, oblivious of party, like honey bees in a field of blossoms. If this development means that voters are voting less the party and more the man, or the man’s ideas, then 1) our politics must be judged capable of being conducted on much more sophisticated levels, and 2) the two major parties must sooner or later accommodate themselves to the broad ideological division of modern times.