CNN Poll: Likability helps Obama survive brutal weEK

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18. That's one of the frustrating things about this experience; I actually agree with lots of

Lefties on the issues, but all of my reality-testing alarms are going off because of HOW they are approaching rhetorical tasks associated with those issues here. It seems to me that they are doing the opposite of what they should be doing for their issues in this situation at this time, hurting issue support instead of building it. If true, this means that some advocates are either too naive to be trusted with my support, or there's something more covert going on, intentionally or otherwise. Parties (whichever, Rep, Dem, Green, Independent, all parties) are being treated as though they are way tooooooo much more important than the issues are and that seems a ill-timed approach, when the inertia is so centrist, because (rhetorical) you marginalize yourself AND whatever you would ADD to the discourse that the discourse does in fact NEED, and which may not or cannot come from anyone else but an authentic Left, gets left out because you have marginalized yourself. And THEN a bunch of people are calling all of that "principled" and anyone who disagrees with it, "unprincipled". It all adds up to a self-fulfilling prophecy for failure ON THE ISSUES and no one seems to care.