To the committed observer, it does not appear that democratic countries’ electorates are so evenly divided along class or similar lines as to cause political stalemate. On the contrary, electorates everywhere seem more volatile than anything else, with voters prepared to change their preferences from one poll to the next.
回答第一个问题最为困难。在职业观察家看来，民主国家的选民在各阶层或其他类似群体中的分布还远没有均匀到导致政治僵局的地步。恰恰相反，选民比其他任何事物更加变化无常，选民们的偏好总是随着一次次民意调查不断发生变化。当然，变化是他们所期望的¾如此而已。