Look who he left out! He omits all of these left-wing voices who spoke out for Terri, some of them with eloquence and passion: Jesse Jackson, Sen. Tom Harken (an otherwise bitter liberal), Nat Hentoff, the dean of leftist civil libertarians, Ralph Nader, presidential candidate of the hard left, and leftist lawyers David Boies, Alan Dershowitz and Gloria Allred. Plus, just about every disability rights group in the country (few if any of them "conservative").
The way I looked at it, a cause that could bring together the Pope, the president of the United States, Tom Delay and Jesse Jackson, Dick Cheney and Nat Hentoff, protestors of both the left and the right, and the Congress of the United States, was astonishing. That such a coalition could LOSE was even more astonishing.
They looked at the wrong poll and abandoned her.