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RiverStone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-06-07 12:56 PM
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Poll question: Are you more apt to change your candidate choice if....
Even if your 99.9% sure who you want in the primaries, which approach do you believe generally produces better results?
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Demit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-06-07 01:04 PM
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1. A candidate coming out for a position to one I favor is what matters to me.
Not whether someone is rah-rahing for their preferred candidate. That's what they want us to be thinking, that we should jump on the bandwagon because a candidate is supposedly popular with everybody else.
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MedleyMisty Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-06-07 01:08 PM
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3. Same here
I don't care what other people think about candidates or how those people present their opinion of the candidates. I'm quite capable of doing research into positions and voting records and making up my own mind.
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More Than A Feeling Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-06-07 01:07 PM
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2. If I've chosen a candidate, why would I change unless I suddenly
started thinking that my candidate was defective in some way that made someone else a better choice, and how would I start thinking that unless I was made aware of that negative information?

We may want to believe that positivity sells, but there is a reason negative campaigning and attack ads work.
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-06-07 01:27 PM
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4. I will pledge my vote to the first candidate who eats a live baby on stage.
I kid, but do you really want to trust the safety of your nation and your children to a candidate who is NOT willing to eat a live baby on stage?
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Tierra_y_Libertad Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-06-07 01:38 PM
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5. I've been able to think for myself for some time.
I'm a helluva lot more interested in what candidates do rather than what they say, or what somebody thinks they say.
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