Arthur Laffer and Stephen Moore have a piece in today's Wall Street Journal ($) that delves into the quite evident differences in economic success between red (Republican) and blue (Democratic) states. If you've been paying attention to this at all, there's not much news in here (though there are a few interesting observations I hadn't heard before). If you haven't been paying attention to the differences between the various states, it's a great (and very short) primer on the topic.
Every time I think about these obvious differences, I wonder the same thing to myself: how is it possible that voters keep voting for the politicians who have inflicted economic disaster upon them? The best theory I know of to explain it is the “low information voter” theory – the idea that most voters really don't have any rational basis for their vote; they just vote for whomever “feels” better to them.
Then I just get sad...
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