It doesn't hurt. Did Wellstone I significantly affect the votes in the 2004 Presidential election? A lie pounded over and over again becomes conventional wisdom. The Left knows it, the Right doesn't. It's the language, stupid! Pederasts are not 'gay' and abortion is not 'choice', you and I know, but check out the terminology used on this very forum. I'd better end the rant, I'm waving at windmills again. By the way, necrophiliacs are 'merry', aren't they?
Ask Walter Mondale if it helped...