It's not just Republican voters whose sympathies lie with those who would tax the rich and change the top-down model of financial regulation – though it might be that Republicans would be more hesitant than Americans in general to actually voice support for the burgeoning Occupy Wall Street movement.
A new Time magazine poll shows that a majority of Americans (54%) have favorable view of the protesters, a surprise to anyone following mainstream coverage of the agitators.
I mean, sure, I've got my anti-giant puppet biases myself, but most criticisms of the movement – even ones by intellectual types, who should know better! – have been stylistic. Oh, sorry – about "temperament".
Actual voters are angry enough about the dismal state of our economy that they don't care about the sleeping bags and drum circles. What do they know that my colleagues don't? Probably someone who is unemployed.
