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Originally posted by baltassoc
Why don't you go back and read my entire post (it wasn't that long) and see if this was really my point?
Individuals matter. They should matter. I reject you hypothesis that people should matter less than polls and focus groups.
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I never said that individuals don't matter. I said that when Bush is trying to determine what public opinion is, or how the public is thinking, information about one opinion does not help.
My original statement was:
"I thought you were smarter than this. Why would the opinion of one person in a country of close to 300 million people matter politically to W (even if she is a swing voter)."
In this country you could find a person with a certain opinion on every issue. If I talk to a swing voter and they say that Bush should have Santa Barbar painted purple, should I report that to the White House as if it has some political significance?
No - unless I conduct some sort of poll or focus group about painting Santa Barbara purple and on voting patterns concerning that issue that information is useless. The average person's opinion in this country only matters to a politicians political strategy if other people hold that same opinion.
Again, I am stating the obvious, and people continue to argue with me.
