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From a comment of mine in NCrissieB's great diary.
Last year Barack Obama whipped John McCain 66.8 million votes to 58.3 million. Electoral votes: 365 to 173. Landslide.
Let's be extremely charitable and say that "only" 10% of those who voted for McCain were and remain batshit crazy and hard-wired to hate ANY Obama/Democratic initiative: that still leaves 5.8 million crazy, bigoted, loudmouthed, paranoid, willfully ignorant, banshee freaks out there -- out here.
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Let's say only 10% of those nutters are inclined to go to Town Hall Meetings and disrupt discussion and civil debate: that still leaves more than 580,000 ranting kooks who believe in alien abductions and bigfoot -- and shackle-fitted FEMA Railroad Cars -- to go out to Town Hall meetings and turn them into Brownshirt Circuses.
And they're doing it. And the Media Heathers are making them look like 1/2-to-a-majority of the U.S. Population. Two nights ago Chris Matthews gave an apparently (looked to me) Seriously Mentally Ill-and-Dangerous Nutjob a National Forum. Gad.
66.8 million voters vs. 580,000 (or less) Screeching Nutters. Media Heathers give the Nutters equal or greater time. Gad, indeed.
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