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To: TimF who wrote (30336)12/11/2008 11:02:59 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Respond to of 71588
 
Re: "People are often too focused on the recent...."

That is certainly true enough, in fact, pollsters have a term for it it's called the 'recency effect'.

Still, it is only human for folks to be focused on what is immediate to their lives, and affecting them currently, (not in the more distant past).