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fshrink Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:47 PM
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A useful psychological twist
By and large, * voters and "undecided" are so in essence because * is A stupid, cowardly, tricky, and incompetent liar. That's what they like about him because that's what they feel about themselves. Therefore, hammering those nails is only likely to reinforce *'s voters base. They will come up with all kinds of reasons for their choice, but the real ones are too close to home, and probably unconscious in most cases, to be acknowledged.
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salinen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:51 PM
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1. Nope
nobody thinks of themselves those ways you describe. They may have those traits, but they deny them and are part of the national conservative psychological epidemic.
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Mountainman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:54 PM
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2. I think many undecideds are Bush supporters who don't like what's been
going on and can't make up their minds to back him anyway or vote for Kerry or not to vote at all.
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sundancekid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-25-04 01:59 PM
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3. the doctor says two words: cognitive dissonance (see link below)
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