The New America Papers Summary:
An awakened future on our horizon

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Enlargement of Upper Right Quadrant: "Strong on a Positive Future, Low on Social Material Stress"
The enlarged quarter shown above is the upper right portion of the PFCI-SMS map that includes those people who most identify with a positive future and who are least influenced by stress in their lives.

The innermost ring includes Americans not likely to vote, with 9.4% not wanting any candidate. In the second ring are those people who are likely to vote, 6.1% for Gore, 5.5% for Bush, 4.9% for McCain, and 1.8% for another candidate.

In the third ring, we see three dark yellow shaded segments representing likely voters who identify with Democrats, with 1.9% labeling themselves conservative, 3.6% moderate, and 1.7% liberal. For those identifying with some other party (shaded purple), 1.0% labeled themselves conservative, 2.4% moderate, and 0.7% liberal. Republican voters are shaded turquoise with 5.4% labeling themselves conservative, 1.5% moderate, and 0.1% liberal.

In the outermost ring are those not likely to vote. The lighter yellow shading identify with Democrats, light purple represent other parties, and the light turquoise identify with Republicans.

Most importantly, the traditional approach and meaningless labels further reinforce the superficiality and irrelevance of political campaigns and needlessly encourage conflicts between members of society to fight among themselves over a few crumbs.

The PFCI-SMS model captures, through the use of statistically reliable, multi-item scales, two major societal trends that could lead to an ascending evolution or a descending evolution. Different types of people are identified with each quadrant based on their core values and attitudes. Shared core values will allow us to "build bridges" between quadrants, instead of building "walls" to separate them. The "tension" or "attraction" between the quadrants will play a critical role in our overall social trajectory at this time.

Candidate Choices for
Strong and Weak Voters
These abbreviated examples show five major candidate choices, prior and up to the 2000 election primary, overlaid on PFCI-SMS quadrant map. Population distribution is shown for each candidate with dark shading for strong voters and light shading for weak voters.

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