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Well maybe he has hubris, and doesn't care, or maybe he plans to explain the subtle differences in one versus the other in a Clintonian way. Clearly the voters know he is just bending to the prevailing winds on an issue now salient. Swing voters will tolerate that up to a point, particuarly on this kind of issue. Still it hurts him. He should have explained up front why although he did "x," he is now doing "y." Policitians that are proactively prophylactic do better than those that wait to be caught out by the media. The Bush DUI comes to mind in that regard. That incident along with misspeak about social secuirty at the end (something about not being a federal entitlement program, or something incredibly dumb along those lines), almost cost him the election. Bush dropped a couple of percentage points over it.