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To: MrLucky who wrote (5464)	11/18/2005 12:30:00 AM
From: Dale Baker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 543056

I agree with much of what you say. As I noted, I find lots of fecklessness from both sides over Iraq. I disagree that it isn't about polls. It's all about the 2006 elections and which way the 2008 candidates choose to tack - do they lean to the right to repeat Bush's whip-up-the-base to 51% strategy, or do we get a repudiation of "My way or the highway because I care about freedom and the USA and you don't!" BS. The polls are how we track what the public wants now. With big majorities saying the country is headed in the wrong direction, I am optimistic that new themes and new styles can emerge. The old debate that started with Iraq and carries on now is stale, dull and unproductive for solving our problems. But that doesn't mean we won't see a lot more of it the next few years.