Seventy Percent

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Thu Mar 20 12:52:12 PST 2003


Kelley wrote:


>it always happens. support spiked for nixon when hell broke for him,
>too. as doug pointed out, it's a temporary response which masks the
>complexity of people's reactions. i mentioned this awhile ago,
>there's no reason to back down. we should have been prepared for it
>and simply moved on and kept up the struggle the best way we know
>how.

Also, 70% isn't 90%. 24% opposition at this stage is pretty high, and a lot of that 70% is soft. In other words, it could be much worse.

Doug



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