Poll: Criticizing Bush Hurts Democrats

Nice post. Two criticisms, though. (1) Please use "centrist", I'm always mentally putting in an extra syllable when you put in the extera "e". (See what I mean?) (2) Be careful not to filter all electoral behavior through the lens of ideology. Many people are (DOUBLE GASP) apolitical. They don't give politics much thought and just vote for the nice man on TV.

Some are so anti-ideological that they will vote against the candidate they perceive as most ideological (left or right).

) apolitical. They don't give politics much thought and just vote for the nice man on TV.

You write of are apolitical people. That discriminates against the bpolitical people. I cpolitical people on TV but never apolitical people and rarely bpolitical people. I know parties try to get dpolitical people to vote. I hear they have zpolitical people in Germany? That is what a member of the old German nobility told me. I think she was a Krautis ans she ought to know.

But it may come as a shock that what you call apolitical people tend to only go to the polls to vote for or against school taxes or zoning laws. Their votes for offices, if they even make them, tend to randomly distribute and are not a factor for anyone. The reason they are apolitical is they don't care who wins and do not take the effort to find out who is running. Mostly they don't even mark the ballot for non tax issues and if they do they randomly distribute.

The apolitical people do remember that nice looking guy on TV, but they didn't care enough to get his name, and they don't have pictures on ballots.

Winston is paid by House Republicans to get accurate data that is both shared with the
White House and used to plot election year strategy.

Hey FOXNews, tell Carl Cameron to get up to speed!

Eveybody know it's "STRATEGERY" while Duyba is in the White House!
That's what has kept Dubya ahead of these carping Democrats!

(For those without television, that's how it gets pronounced on Saturday Night Live)

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