[mtbopfuyn]

Professor Niven said voters from both parties have been distracted _ both the affluent, Republican-leaning coastal residents and the lower-income residents who tend to vote Democratic.

He really doesn't want to know what this lower-income Republican has to say about that statement.

[Ron in Acreage]

He apparently doesn't realize that the majority of "coastal" residents are wealthy liberal senior democrats from the north east.