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AshevilleGuy

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Sat Mar-17-07 11:48 PM
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19. Likability!! Only Nixon won without it.

The 10 or 15% swing voters who decide elections vote as if it were a high school popularity contest. Issues? They have no clue, but they can tell you the latest on Anna Nicole, or their fave soap, or their ball team. They shouldn't vote, but they have been trained to, by well meaning but naive dogooders.

We ignore them at our peril.

Don't believe me? Then think: how do the same voters elect Santorum and Specter? Grassley and Harkin? Santorum and Rendell? It can't be the issues!

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