for sake of argument, let's take our starting point as February 2003.
normally in politics you see some churn at the margin - but as far as i can tell, the only churn we ever see is people wavering at the edge who were originally fans of the murderers who might get disenchanted for a bit, but then get caught up in the BUSH BOUNCE hoopla every now and again. But my thesis is that this crew probably hasn't won over a single person in three years. That's really quite remarkable - and I presume, unprecedented.
It's conceivable that there were some christopaths who were anti-war but whose hearts glow at the thought of snow-flake children, for example.
and granted, this was this moment of horror:

and granted, people hate the egadministration for a whole bunch of different reasons, including that they dont hate gays enough such as richard de viguerie, and others who hate him because he isnt sufficiently war-mongerish, and other such nonsense - but has the administration won over a single person?
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One of my favorite Michael Bérubé posts from way back in 2004 has lots of reasons why maybe some of those republicans were liking the bush presidency: http://www.michaelberube.com/index.php/the_40_percenters/
thnx kathy.
i hadnt seen that one before. nice post.
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