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To: Ichy Smith who wrote (206303)	10/17/2006 6:13:11 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 281500

Voting for the candidate is the ideal, but perhaps you are not aware of how polarized American politics is, at least on the national level. I read, just today, that 82% of Republicans approve of the job President Bush is doing, while only 12% of Democrats do. That's quite a divide. And the greatest division is on the war in Iraq. Democrats want to cut-and-run, Republicans want to stay until the job is finished, and a slim majority of Independents side with the Republicans on this issue. Thus, I take it in stride when Democrats insult me for wanting to stay in Iraq until the job is done. It's a polarizing issue, and on an unmoderated thread, insults are par for the course. But as for voting for "the candidate," lucky for me the Ds are not running anybody I care to vote for, although I did vote D for governor last year, which is all about local politics, nothing to do with war and other national issues.