[lbo-talk] Winning the 'honesty' vote ...

Jordan Hayes jmhayes at j-o-r-d-a-n.com
Fri Nov 5 09:24:33 PST 2004


http://www.thenation.com/edcut/index.mhtml?pid=1979

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Perhaps more astonishing than the polling on the murky issue of morality (why aren't poverty and unjust war considered immoral?) are the figures reported[*] in the New York Times: "Voters who cited honesty as the most important quality in a candidate broke 2 to 1 in Mr. Bush's favor..." The most mendacious Administration in American history won the honesty vote?

* http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/03/politics/campaign/03assess.html



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