Study shows most Bush Supporters are ignorant

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Oh is this another word association thread?
Lynch mob=> the Bush administration

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Bush Administration=> Bush League

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from The Economist of 16 Oct 2004
The president is not even pretending to appeal to undecided voters. His rallies are all-ticket affairs, and tickets go only to volunteers or donors. Some have been asked to sign pledges of support and agree that their names be uses as part of the campaign. Kerry supporters with the temerity to appear are ejected and have been threatened with jail (apparently for trespass). ...

In other words, the differences at the debates reflect different calculation about the last stage of the race. The Democrats think the contest will be won, as so often, in the middle; so they are reaching out to swing voters. Republicans think the race will be won by whoever turns out his core supporters more successfully; they are reaching out to social conservatives.

One thing my most Republican friends say (and I was raised very Republican) is that Bush is the centrist; Kerry the liberal. However, why then is Bush not even trying to recruit those who are politically centrist? Well, centrists don't vote that reliabily. Go for the core supporter - right wing religious extremists and other hard core supoprters who do vote religiously.

Curiously, in PA, Bush campaign is going after the Amish vote of 50,000 in PA and 54,000 in Ohio. As long as the Amish remain so ill informed, then they will even believe that Saddam attacked the World Trade Center. They will even believe that George Jr is honest because he is religious - he is one of us. Of course, only a world worst liar would advocate the invasion of another sovereign nation, then 'fix' the facts to justify same. One must be informed to see the repeated lies.

I routinely stop complete strangers only with the eventual intent to ask them one simple question. Who attacked the World Trade Center? Most don't know. Some (such as the gas station attendent but an hour ago) say it is Saddam - as often as they say Ossam bin Laden. Yes, we the people are so ill informed that we only hear MTV sound bytes. This is exactly the mental midgetry that George Jr appeals to. Go for the core constituency. Extremism is where the least informed people lie. Don't recruit from the centrists. Centrists know the tax cuts were nonsense when proposed. They know bin Laden is still running free because George Jr made it so. They know the silly Manned Mission to Mars to total bullshit - another example in the long list of perverting science. They know the anti-missile defense system does not work and has no purpose. They know stem cell research is being stifled by a religious extremst president. They know this president used Echelon to spy on all Security Council nations to get a vote to invade Iraq (almost every Security Council nation said the invasion was wrong and not justified). Centrists even know the president tried to quash the 9/11 Commission - as all four Jersey girls loudly declared long before the 9/11 Commission was created. To get elected, this mental midget president must rally the naive and ignorant among us. And unfortunately, too many people don't even know who destroyed the WTC.

Do it your self. As that 7-11 Cashier. That guy reading a paper at the coffee shop corner. The person who parks next to you. A surprisingly large number don't even know who attacked America - and then blame Saddam. Amazing how a president can lie so often - and we believe him.

Yes, only a few years ago, even Cellar dwellars tried to claim Saddam was involved in 9/11 - because this president counts on the people just not knowing the facts. This president recruits from his extremist core base - that in America is quite large and that votes ... religiously.