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Politics : Politics for Pros- moderated
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To: carranza2 who wrote (35170)3/17/2004 6:43:00 PM
From: Lane3  Read Replies (1) of 793656
 
AQ won a skirmish only if you are willing to accept the notion that the Socialists won only because of the bombs.

Something that happened that day changed people's votes and the Socialists won. We don't know the reason for the changed votes. Could have been that they were paying the PP back for a perceived deception. Could have been that they decided that getting out of AQ's crosshairs was suddenly more important than the other election issues. It really doesn't matter what they had in mind. The fact is that they changed their votes aware at some level that a Socialist win would be perceived as a win for AQ and they did it anyway. Perhaps that's second degree appeasement rather than first degree appeasement. Or perhaps they were too grief stricken or afraid to know what they were doing. Doesn't matter. AQ will take the win either way.

I don't fault the people. It was a tough time for them. I do blame the politicos. It wasn't their finest hour.
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