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To: cnyndwllr who wrote (193494)	7/27/2006 2:10:20 PM
From: KyrosL	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Hi Ed, There are lots of people that disagree with Bush's foreign policies, yet vote consistently Republican. In talking to some of them, it seems one issue that looms large is tax policy. These people simply vote their pocket book.

To: cnyndwllr who wrote (193494)	7/27/2006 6:18:43 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 281500

Hi cnyndwllr; Re: "You don't know who will be running as a Republican or Democrat. You don't know what their policies will be. You don't know what issues will be the most critical and what approaches will be effective in two years and yet you state, without qualification, that you will vote Republican in the next election." Regular elections in the United States involve making several dozen votes. Most of these elections are contested, and I will be given a choice of Republican or Democrat. I can assure you now that it is extremely unlikely that the Republicans could lose my vote on the majority of those elections. That is what "voting Republican" means. Now for the Presidency, it is of course impossible to make a decision this far in advance. But given the people that seem likely to run, yes, I will vote Republican yet again. The Democrats were so damned sure that Republican policies were going to hand them control over the US government on a silver platter that they failed to take into account the fact that they have to come up with candidates that are more attractive than the other side's. And by the way, politics is mostly local. US foreign policy is only a tiny fraction of the duties that the US President is responsible for. -- Carl