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To: AFPhys
No, I think our range is pretty close. I said 15% (12% black and 3% other) and you said 20%. I think the diff will boil down to exactly how radical O gets, plus some other things that are starting to percolate, such as the Afghanistan situation.

On the one hand, the Dems don't want to be saddled with losing a war. On the other hand, no Dem since Truman knew how to fight one. So how does the Joker sell it? He's already said we don't need a "victory" there. All this MAY . . . MAY . . . cut into his super approval with the uberlibs, the way the war cut into Bush's numbers with the isolationist right.

370 posted on 08/23/2009 2:56:07 PM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: LS

I guess that is pretty close, though the way I see it, 15 to 20 is a difference of 25% or 33%. No matter. More important, I don’t honestly believe that it is possible for anyone to get to the absolute base. Some actions that make someone mad will make others happy. If the “Strong Support” gets down to the 22-25% area, I can not IMAGINE that it can get any lower in a poll- if only because “support” people say “Strongly Support” just because they are feeling sorry for the polled person.

There is not much further to go before “Strong Support” hits rock bottom, in this way of thinking. Again, that is largely because of the solid “base” of “demographic support”(blacks- who I AGREE with ANY reasons they might give, and sympathize with them) who Dear Leader can NOT lose no matter what he does - a support base that no other president in history really enjoyed.


380 posted on 08/23/2009 3:19:26 PM PDT by AFPhys
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