k wrote:
] ] As the nation prepares to watch the presidential
] ] candidates debate foreign policy issues, a new
] ] PIPA-Knowledge Networks poll finds that Americans who
] ] plan to vote for President Bush have many incorrect
] ] assumptions about his foreign policy positions. Kerry
] ] supporters, on the other hand, are largely accurate in
] ] their assessments. The uncommitted also tend to
] ] misperceive Bush's positions, though to a smaller
] ] extent than Bush supporters, and to perceive Kerry's
] ] positions correctly.
]
] [ Framing, framing, framing, framing. Co-opt the language and
] you convince people despite facts. Luntz, Norquist and the
] network of conservative think tanks have worked for 30 years
] to set this up. These are the rewards they're reaping :
]
] "Majorities of Bush supporters incorrectly assumed that Bush
] favors including labor and environmental standards in trade
] agreements (84%), and the US being part of the Comprehensive
] Test Ban Treaty (69%), the International Criminal Court (66%),
] the treaty banning land mines (72%), and the Kyoto Treaty on
] global warming (51%). "
]
] -k]

Do you think that people backing Bush are just stupider than the people backing Kerry? Either that or they have a willful disregard for facts.

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