[lbo-talk] Who Set People Up for Disappointment and Demoralization? (polls as scientific form of prayer?)

Thomas Seay entheogens at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 25 22:10:27 PST 2005


--- Yoshie Furuhashi <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu> wrote:

if Kerry
> had won, people
> would have gone home, thinking that the job was
> accomplished;

That's pure conjecture. We dont know that would have happened. It's just as likely that people would have been energized by a Kerry victory. That also is pure conjecture, but that also was a possibility. We will never know.

Are you suggesting that 4 percent of the vote to Ralph Nader would have boosted morale?

Thomas

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