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onenote

(46,184 posts)
9. Unlikely
Wed Aug 29, 2012, 12:03 AM
Aug 2012

First, most of the convention isn't being televised. Second, what is being televised is mostly pablum. Keep in mind that no one, not a single person, on DU is the intended audience for the repubs. Of course we're going to be offended by them. But unless the broader public -- particularly independents -- are offended by the general tenor of the convention, it will be what it is supposed to be -- a way to rally the repub voters and make Romney and Ryan seem more palatable to right leaning independents.

I've seen it declared by some here that the repubs convention is a "trainwreck" -- as much as it may seem that way to us, it really doesn't matter unless that is the message being received by the general public. And from what I can see, it isn't.


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