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To: aculeus; Future Useless Eater

Good article, thanks for posting this.


2 posted on 05/22/2005 8:36:43 AM PDT by MizSterious (First, the journalists, THEN the lawyers.)
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To: MizSterious
Elections especially presidential ellections in the USA have tended to be close.. the last two elections.

There is nothing to make us believe that the next one will not be close. IT very likely will be.

When elections are close single issue voters become very important. There is substantial proof that President Bush Carried Ohio on just three issues... gay marriage, abortion, and the war on terror.

We have now added a 4 th issue.. the right to life for adults as well as unborn babbies.

These issues are not large issues to a majority of voters. They may effect, in a state like ohio, no more than one to two hundred thousand voters each. Out of 5.5 million voters 400 thouand does not seem like much. Each issue effects less than 2 percent of the voters.

Buts Ohio was won by only 120 thousand votes. Perhaps as many as one third of the 400 thousand voters on these issues are registered Democrats. That is 150 thousand voters.

Had the right to adult life been an issue last fall, then it is likley that the President would have piced up another 40 thousand votes and Kerry would have had 40 thousand less. That would make the margin of victory 200 thousand instead of 120 thousand.

When the media reports that 60 percent of the public supported killing Terri, it thinks the issue has no political value. But the 60 percent who approved of the killing will not vote in future elections on that issue. Even most of the people opposed to the courts rulings will not make it defining issue in future elections.

But the 2 percent who do are voting for conservative candiates in order to get consevative judges.

People wonder why Frist is letting the Judical nomination thing run on and on and on. The fact is the polls most likely do favor the Democrats on the issue. But that is not the point. The important factor is whose votes will it effect and how many.

What the Democrats are doing is driving away conservative "value issue" democrats in swing states. The more Ried, Kerry, Kennedy,and Pelosi do , the harder it will be for them to carry Ohio, and other swing states.

The Democrats do not understand politics.. Not like Karl Rove does.

The name of the game is not approval or disaproval in the polls. The name of the game is how many votes will be changed to hurt or help us. HUrting their prospects is what is happening to Democrats. At the present time only the Clintons understand it.

Note the Clintons are not touching the judicial nomination situation much at all. It is a loser for Democrats.. and the Clinton's know it.

4 posted on 05/22/2005 9:07:52 AM PDT by Common Tator
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