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You both have a very interesting perspective; however, I never seriously believed - as a lurker - that there were more than maybe half a dozen real life individuals, who were using dozens of posting I.D.s and although they ACTED like they were being Mormons, those very few paid posters running a perverse polical PR campaign only convinced me of two things:

ONE: to never, under any circumstances to vote for Mitt or Meg Whitman for anything, and

TWO: to distinctly distrust everything I read online that cannot be verified offline.

For you see... the online campaign at FR was so ridiculous that it turned off lots of people, even lurkers.... and therefore, would it not be just as possible for an Enemy Competitor to run a similar campaign, pretending they are for a candidate, while actually trying to disgust the other forum participants???

I don’t think that you realize that in 2 years of intense, deep discussion, on many 1000 post threads, that a poster cannot hide himself, much less try and impersonate a variety of personalities.

Here is a thread that you can look at as an example.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1931965/posts?q=1&;page=1#1

There were a pretty good number of long term FR members who were LDS that were pushing Mitt. To their credit there were more than a few who had little for him as well.

They combined with LDS and Non LDS paid bloggers as well as some non LDS groupies made it real interesting here.

The LDS post did stand out though do to the nature and language used.