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To: MrLucky who wrote (64139)	8/25/2004 7:33:07 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793914

As far back as Aristotle, it's been well known that for some people reasonable arguments work, and for some people, appeals to emotion are the only thing that works. When logical people hear "help is on the way!" as a campaign slogan, they gag. But for emotional people, this is the type of message they must hear, that they connect with. So you need both. People who really understand the political system are actually few and far between. We were treated, earlier today, to the spectacle of a highly intelligent man with an advanced business degree from a prestigious university who doesn't know who initiates changes in the tax code. He's logical and reasonable, emotional arguments probably won't work on him, but his area of expertise is not politics. He's not stupid, far from it. I posted earlier that Gore may have lost in 2000 because of voters who were p'o'ed because they had too little rain or too much rain and held it against Gore. This business makes no logical sense. BTW, I have a theory that one reason the Founding Fathers drafted the Declaration of Independence is because the Brits allowed the French Canadians to have Catholicism as a state religion and the American patriots were scared into thinking that this was next for them. They were terrified of the Pope, because in England and the rest of Europe, Protestants and Catholics killed each other for centuries. Now people are being stampeded into the Bush campaign over gay marriage, and vice versa. People are strange.