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Originally posted by Sidd Finch
A whole lot of people, the vast majority of whom vote, make over $250k/year.
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1% of the population. Because of the propensity to vote that you mentioned, probably a higher percentage of voters; could be 2, maybe even 3%. No idea what percentage of those would vote for Kerry regardless, but I'm pretty sure the number who changed their minds is a pretty small percentage. So we're looking at 3-5% of 1-3% of the voting population (or rounding up, .0.2% of the voting public) would have a negative reation. Compared to a probably equal percentage of the middle class who (if the believe him) are breathing a sigh of relief the tax increase would not be aimed at them, and therefore are ready to get off the fence and vote for Kerry. 3-5% of 80% is a much bigger number. This call by Kerry was a no brainer.
It remains to be seen whether this will outweigh the people who were turned off by the John "I served in Vietnam" F. "Vietnam, where Bush didn't serve" Kerry "Did I mention Vietnam, yah, I went there" film (including many shots taken when he was in Vietnam) and speach (which started with the monumentally stupid line "Reporting for duty" - probably an clumsy attempt to make an allusion to the little known fact he served in Vietnam).
