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To: combjelly who wrote (307555)	10/24/2006 8:29:45 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574292

They talk about issues, but not specific votes. And arguing that someone gets a poor score on supporting the troops because they oppose a draft, and don't want to outlaw private contractors in Iraq doesn't strike me as reasonable. They don't make all of their positions completely clear but they seem to call for a draft while opposing stop loss. So they want to force people in but not keep them in? Instead shuffling green troops through the battle zone? They also don't show how what supporting their position on each issue means, and how the people with high scores did provide support but those with low scores did not. For example most Democrats don't really support a draft, I know some called for it as a political stunt, and a very tiny minority might actually support it, but the positions of the majority of Republicans and Democrats are the same on this issue. They don't even say that these are the issue that they are basing their scores on, they just are issues that they are apparently concerned about, taking specific positions on some but not on others. There is nothing here that provides any reason to think they are anything but a partisan group.