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Davis_X_Machina

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Tue Mar-02-04 09:08 AM
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5. This has two symbolic purposes....

...and everything this administraton does is symbolic.

1.) The 'inevitability' strategy beloved of Rove -- Bush is gonna win anyhow, so why bother waiting for the actual results. We saw this in 2000 in the campaign -- Bush 'contesting' California, etc, and in the recount.

2.) The official Bush campaign theme is more or less 'Don't change horses in midstream'. Here the expense of such a change, and the potential danger of such a change, are both trotted out for the delectation of the press.

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