Closure my eyeball. Although you're right as rain.
Hey look, during non-election years people will say anything when phoned by a pollster. Heck I'd hesitate if asked if I was exactly and perfectly pleased by how things are going in Iraq.
This does NOT translate into votes and I'd argue this indefinitely. For when push comes to its brother shove, when people have to put their money where their polled mouths are, they're not going to pull that lever for an unknown group of politicos who have nothing to offer but foaming at the mouth. Perhaps I give the American public too much credit?
It's the kind of thing raw, dried and reported polls don't report. We all know out here in la-la land that there hasn't been a major terror attack in this country since 9/11. We all know that there's a grueling, slow and steady fight in Iraq and hey, Americans are known for their impatience. But those same polls ask if the U.S. should pull out of Iraq and occassionaly it is reported that the majority of the American people do NOT support this. Though, again, those polled express that famous American impatience to the pollster and this goes in the "negative" column.
Bush is going to take hits on this because every American who has a bone to pick with Iraq is going to beat on the President. It's part of the President's job. Doesn't matter what the bone is...perhaps the Saddam trial joke gets dreary, perhaps yet another report of an IED killing a soldier causes concern, perhaps we're all just sick and tired of cartoon-rioting and war-starting terrorist groups and we lash out at those who dare to telephonically poll us.
Not to mention a media so desperate for attention they publish fake photographs and feature foaming pundits and opposition politicians constantly.
Give those same polled Americans a voting booth and with the common sense we all posess, as we are, heh, the "common" people, we're not going to pull the lever for those unknowns such as Ned Lament.
They are once again trying to change reality. It's what the Lamestream does. Makes them faux important.
We carry this country on our collective backs, us ordinary Americans. Indeed we carry this entire PLANET on our backs. An ounce of common sense-and we've TONS of that out here in la-la land-surely stipulates that we're on the best, albeit slow and frustrating, course we can be on in this war on terror.
I don't believe for a minute that the average American, beyond the Koz Kidz, is going to change horses swimming steady and strong, perhaps a bit slow, in mid-stream.
It's my story and I'm sticking to it.
You don't think steadily moving from consistent double-digit deficits to a statistical tie is closure? Or am I not understanding your point?