>>Yet another pointless and useless waste of time and energy. We can always look back and see what we want - because we have more information and we know the results. For me... I am going to strive to move forward and not whine about what happened in the past.
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>Understanding why people voted for Bush is important for the 2006 mid-term elections and the 2008 Presidential election.

That's undoubtedly true, Chris.
But the question is how do you get people to understand the TRUTH? And an even bigger question is how do you even know if something is true these days?

It looks to this outsider that as long as you have only two REAL political parties, with all the coziness that this invites between corporate or union interests and the politicians themselves, you are doomed to manipulation.

Jim