The question is, what *MORE* can be done by means of rallies? I think the question of speakers is moot: it wouldn't surprise me if King's "I Have a Dream" speech was dismissed as preaching to the converted at the time. Or are rallies a starting or staging point for other actions, etc? Dunno.
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> rallies are the method of outreach....what are we supposed to do....go on
> CNN and FOX non-stop? There were plenty of avenues for people to find out
> and understand what this war was about and was not about .... at the end
> of the day that 40% decided to close its eyes to the truth....It is one
> thing to resign yourself to the inevitability of the war once it has started,
> but is another thing altogether to support it....(though, I would very much
> like to see the precise questions asked in the polls that brought the 40%
> over to the dark side.....)
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