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The GOP's a Toyota, Dems Are All GM
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| Last Edited | *crickets chirp* Jun 29, 2005 10:51am |
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| Media | Newspaper - Los Angeles Times |
| News Date | Wednesday, June 29, 2005 04:50:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | "In American politics today, who is General Motors and who is Toyota?
You might imagine that the GOP would be the GM Party. Conservatives are more likely to drive gas-guzzling Chevy Suburbans; liberals are more likely to try a sensible RAV4. A Hummer almost screams "I'm a Republican and I don't care"; the Toyota Prius comes standard with a faded Kerry-Edwards bumper sticker.
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But if you look at the state of the parties rather than the driving habits of their members, the picture reverses. The glory years of GM coincided with those of the Democrats. From 1940 to 1968, it dominated the automobile market just as the Democrats ruled politics. GM cars were so ubiquitous that a GM executive could say that what is good for GM is good for America. Democrats had a lock on Congress and controlled the White House, except for the eight years when the Republicans put up that decidedly liberal Oldsmobile, Dwight Eisenhower."
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