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	Name:	MartiniMan -
	Subject:	Hey, Martini>>>
	Date:	7/28/2010 10:15:11 AM

Sigh.....Mack, I wish I could argue with you about your take on the problem but I can't. You are probably right about how people make decisions. I would say it is not necessarily just how much they spend but on what kind of ads. Late in the game attack ads, even if disingenuous, always seem to sway voters.

Maybe you are also right and rather than it being a mystery why voters don't educate themselves maybe it is just a sad fact. Possibly the only solution is when voters see their rights being attacked, their economy being devastated by incompetence and their freedom at risk will they rise up and do the right thing. That realization partly explains the Tea Party Movement in America as they have seen the march toward a statist Federal government being foist on us by Obama/Reid/Pelosi. Alexis de Tocqueville said it best, "The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money. "