Centerfield

Get Out Yer Crayons

Back40, a poster on the Hannity-Colmes thread below, has come up with a challenging assertion that he's been unwilling to expand upon so far. His claim is that the political spectrum represented by the span from, say, Rush Limbaugh to Al Franken represents only a narrow slice near the center of the spectrum. So for him, I'm asking that he expound on this, hopefully with examples.

But for the rest of us, how about getting out your crayons and drawing us some sort of map of the political world. We've already visited the idea of a few 2-axis models, use one of those, or whatever makes sense to you.

Pointless exercise? Maybe. But a lesson from a good college professor has stuck with me, lo, these more years than I'd care to admit. It was a class that surveyed a variety of approaches to personality. My professor stresses to me her viewpoint that she didn't think it was all that important whether anyone one of the theorists was RIGHT per se, but rather that you learned most when you approached the models as ways to bootstrap yourself in and gain some insight.

So address back40's contention, or elaborate on it, but give us some sort of model that gives us a little insight.