Comments on: Zogby poll shows Rove strategy in tatters http://www.nonfamous.com/wp/2004/07/30/zogby-poll-shows-rove-strategy-in-tatters/ commentary on the world around us, with an effort to keep paranoia at the lowest healthy level Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:32:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2 By: Gary http://www.nonfamous.com/wp/2004/07/30/zogby-poll-shows-rove-strategy-in-tatters/#comment-842 Gary Wed, 31 Dec 1969 19:00:00 +0000 http://www.nonfamous.com/wp/2004/07/30/zogby-poll-shows-rove-strategy-in-tatters/#comment-842 Something I saw a day or two ago that validates what one suspects: fear leads to choosing the most aggressive-sounding candidate. Whenever I see a poll now, I want to know the actual questions and their order of presentation. The percentage of Americans actually dying from terrorism is still incredibly small compared to many other issues we could address before getting around to the religious extremists (who might be marginalized into extinction in their own societies if our foreign policy was different). So, if everyone could just feel grounded and centered... and then choose a president, we should be okay. I really, really want not just Bush defeated in November, but for it to be resoundingly so, such that the neo-con agenda can only continue to fester in the most obscure pockets of insistence. I don't want us to be forced to keep fighting the same bullshit with only a slightly improved edge on November 3. I want Rove, Feith, Abrams, et al to fall into obscurity. I hope they can only afford to own one home. I wish there was some way to actually get the true pulse of the nation; it seems to me that most of what I can read right now is either left-leaning or right-leaning, and both are some varying degree of confident that their candidate has the presidency in hand. I suppose the truth today is that the identified constituency know for whom they will vote, and those who remain uncertain will remain so until much later. Something I saw a day or two ago that validates what one suspects: fear leads to choosing the most aggressive-sounding candidate. Whenever I see a poll now, I want to know the actual questions and their order of presentation. The percentage of Americans actually dying from terrorism is still incredibly small compared to many other issues we could address before getting around to the religious extremists (who might be marginalized into extinction in their own societies if our foreign policy was different). So, if everyone could just feel grounded and centered… and then choose a president, we should be okay.

I really, really want not just Bush defeated in November, but for it to be resoundingly so, such that the neo-con agenda can only continue to fester in the most obscure pockets of insistence. I don’t want us to be forced to keep fighting the same bullshit with only a slightly improved edge on November 3. I want Rove, Feith, Abrams, et al to fall into obscurity. I hope they can only afford to own one home.

I wish there was some way to actually get the true pulse of the nation; it seems to me that most of what I can read right now is either left-leaning or right-leaning, and both are some varying degree of confident that their candidate has the presidency in hand. I suppose the truth today is that the identified constituency know for whom they will vote, and those who remain uncertain will remain so until much later.

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