GUEST, it's a bit of a stretch to assume that the eligible voters who didn't bother to vote were all disenchanted progressives. More likely, they were just bloody apathetic, not into thinking much beyond what's on TV tonight, especially when voting involves getting up off their butts to go stand in line somewhere.

"They're apathetic because they're not being offered a genuine progressive alternative," you say? No, if they did go out and vote, the numbers would be larger, but the overall outcome would quite probably be the same.

Don Firth