The look-homeward angle

摘要

"THERE IS NO such thing as a base vot-er," says Stacey Abrams, who last year came closer than any Democrat this century to becoming Georgia's governor. Ms Abrams embraced identity politics-she contributed an article to the current issue of Foreign Affairs entitled "Identity politics strengthens democracy"-and made registration and mobilisation of young and non-white voters central to her campaign. "To win we had to activate voters [in] communities that had been discounted because they were seen as not viable. Republicans didn't worry about them because they could never win. And Democrats didn't engage because they didn't vote."