I know the DFW piece on McCain2000 is a big time commitment, but wanted to state again that it’s worth the effort. Not least because of “the Chris Duren Incident,” which is beautifully recounted by Wallace and then used as a fulcrum to make his larger point about our inability in the modern world to know when we’re being played. There’s an angle to everything. The younger generation knows and expects to be manipulated. One rational response is to opt out. Chris Duren was a teenager who had thrown all his energy behind McCain2000. He got a phone call from a push-poll group, presumably set up by Bush2000, saying some really nasty things about the man who once lived in a box. Young Chris was disillusioned. Or was that really the way things happened? Who knows?
Fast forward to 2008 and you have these kinds of reports popping up everywhere. Looks like these calls, which link Obama to Hamas, are going to Jews in Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Glad to see you’re writing again. i will be interested in your take on tomorrow night’s debate. Not surprised by McCain’s push-polling, as he has seen its effectiveness in the past, and after his selection of Palin I put absolutely nothing past him.