But the issue of the economy and jobs has increased from 22 percent to 25 percent, and that should give guys like Kerry and Gephardt even more hope as they take on Dean's legions.
It's quite amusing to see Dean supporters claimed to be nine feet tall, lol!
A number of GOP and anti-Dean columnists try mingle in the concept that those who favor Dean on some poll, or who donate a few dollars are variously, "legions", "real estate", or "Dean's machine". They can be forgiven for assuming politically-motivated people must act in some sort of manipulated bloc. This corresponds to their mind-set, and their fervent wishes. The only way propagandists can work is with narrow-minded subjects. Anyone who values freedom of thought is dangerous to the usual process, and is likely to ask uncomfortable questions, instead of the desired hooting-hollering polemics.
The machine politicians on both sides including Rove, Gephardt, Kerry, Lieberman, go nuts trying to pin a comfortable label on this grass-roots movement, and avoid the obvious - the Dean folks include a lot of people who simply show the opinion that the gov't and politicians-as-usual are easy liars and are compromised by the financial-gov't axis of evil.
This is the basis of all the miscalculations to date.
If any of these consultants have learned their lessons, we'll be seeing actual debates focused on clear issues. If not, they'll continue to lose. |
