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3% more according to the current "count"
3% more of the 40% that voted.
this is not "most voters"
this is a slim majority that woudl not have happened had the right not simply been better organized.
little to do with the content of the ideology.
rather a different kind of political machine making its presence felt--and demanding payback straight away--the christian right knows full well how important its organizing was to the bushwin, and they are expecting direct payback---so much for women's right to control their bodies, for example. so much for civil rights for gay folk.
for those not directly part of the organized aspects of the space, i suspect that the marketing of an irrational war in iraq played a role. this kind of conservativism has always needed war, used war for its advantage.
the media apparatus working for the right is good at what it does, too. it manipulates bush's image knowing it is just image: those who support bush on these grounds tend to treat a highly manipulated image as a mirror of reality--witness the kind of responses that come up from teh right over and over to farenheit 911 as evidence.
gotta go
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
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