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echo: crossfire
to: TOM WALKER
from: Roy Witt
date: 2009-06-22 13:15:24
subject: (1/2) Welfare

22 Jun 09 06:57, TOM WALKER wrote to ROGER NELSON:


 RN>> RW>TW> Rembember the Polls said Dewey would WIN against Truman.

 RN>> RW> That wasn't a poll, that was one newspaper practicing wishful
 RN>> thinking.

 RN>> I remember that!  I think it was the Chicago Daily Tribune.  Truman
 RN>> had a lo of fun with that as well as the commentator H.V.
 RN>> Kaltenborn.

 TW> That was the Newspaper. Adn despite Roys contentio nsome pols DID
 TW> have Dewey Leading and the Editors put too much Faith in them when
 TW> they decided on the Early Edition Headline that day.

Even Clinton believed in polls. OTH, GW ignored polls and did what he had
to do. Which is why he wasn't very popular with the left.

                R\%/itt

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