Abracapocus about "Hybrid Democracy" by Public Policy Institute of California The Pasadena Pundit - October 16, 2007 In the cartoon Bugs Bunny in Transalvania, the character Bugs Bunny invented the term abracapocus, which is a hybrid of the words abracadabra and hocus pocus, when he battled a vampire and it turned into a bat with a vampire's head (as in Presto Chango! Abracapocus! Hocuscadabra!). Mark Baldassare and Cherly Kraft of the Public Policy Institute (PPI) of California, a so-called "independent, objective, and non-partisan" public opinion polling outfit, are out in the Los Angeles Times with an abracapocus-like column calling for...