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Recently, as the 2008 elections apparently draw near (note: they ain't that near), the same old story and debates over how to approach undecided and even conservative voters disaffected with this President are flaring up. Not only on a site such as this one, but in conversations with people in my life, and certainly with the Talking Head Class.
I try to be pragmatic. I certainly would not chase away any voters who've been led astray--or led themselves astray, no matter how long--who have had a genuine epiphany. This is why I appreciate David Brock, for example, although others will never accept the work he now does. If you've voted Republican in the last 5 presidential elections, but just can't take it any more and see what you want in the Democratic Party--whether it was the war, Katrina, anti-lower/middle class policies that turned you off the GOP--welcome aboard.
So, that's pragmatism for you.
But when you're "attracting" new voters, regardless of their past, and you've been selling Coke the whole time, you don't freak out and start selling Sprite. (more)
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