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To: shrinkermd
Only a minority take much interest in either politics or foreign policy. All these polls are measuring something important to the political elite and hangers on but there is no reservoir demanding a regime change in the US. Most people queried will answer off the top of their head whatever doesn't appear stupid or whatever looks like it will please the pollster. It is the moral hazard of making polls rather than positions the subjects inquiry.

You got that right, got that right, got that right.

And especially in these midterms, most Americans, busy carrying this country on their backs, working the economy, raising the soldiers and citizens of our future, only pay attention, if at all, during the last week or so of the midterms. So when asked, they just say anything.

My own daughter, who I'd consider a little politcally in tuned, tells me recently that she's not going to bother to vote in the midterms. "Maryland doesn't have any interesting races" she says primly.

Why I like to have a cow right on the spot. "STEELE!" I shout. "EHRLICH!" I shout again. I warn her that if she doesn't want sweet Kaitlyn Mae, her daughter, to wear a burqua she needs to help keep the Senate Republican.

Well she hadn't even thought of the Steele thing going on.

She's not a stupid child, please understand. She's doing her best to raise a toddler, moving to another place (the DELMARVA area) for a better area to raise her child, helping her husband earn the money and saving for a house of her own. I know for sure she'll vote now but I am just flabberghasted. Merryland has no interesting races?

It's how the average folk out here in la-la see the midterms. Come time to vote I suspect a bunch of people are going into the voting booth and I suspect they are NOT going to turn over this country to the Democrats, I know it in my bones.

Meanwhile, the pollsters are polling people much like my own daughter, offspring of a political junkee mind you, and they are simply not paying attention. Watch those vapid margins disappear in the upcoming two weeks.

It's my story and I'm sticking to it.

462 posted on 10/22/2006 7:50:58 AM PDT by Fishtalk (http://patfish.blogspot.com)
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To: Fishtalk

My daughter is in much the same boat. She is trying to raise her four children, has a new job, and watches very little TV. She will vote, but it is not high on her list.
We don't have any major races to deal with (except for gov in NE TX).


482 posted on 10/22/2006 8:03:20 AM PDT by mathluv (Never Forget!)
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To: Fishtalk
Ask your daughter what good moving to a safer place will be if the terrorists detonate a dirty bomb in America?

Implore her to understand the value of the measures this President has put in place to surveil the terrorists and how the left wants to dismantle every safeguard.

660 posted on 10/22/2006 10:55:43 AM PDT by OldFriend (CNN CELEBRATING THE DEATH OF OUR HEROES)
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