“King Of The Hill” Democrats?
By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Elections, General Politics
This is an interesting story I found via Taegan Goddard’s Political Wire.
Apparently, the Democratic Governor of North Carolina, Mike Easley started breaking his constituents into people who watch “King Of The Hill” and those who don’t. Easley’s people then identified the characteristics these people shared with Hank Hill, the show’s main character.
The results?
Easley polls surprisingly well for a Democrat among these voters, and he says he thinks that understanding the show’s viewers might resolve some of the mysteries confronting his party about the vast swaths of red on the electoral map. Easley is reasonably progressive — he raised taxes during his first term to protect education spending — but he’s also known as a guy who cracked up a race car during a spin on a Nascar course. When the governor, a former prosecutor, prepares to make his case on a partisan issue, he likes to imagine that he’s explaining his position to Hank — an exercise that might be useful for his colleagues in Washington too.
More from the NY Times.
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