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Glenn, this always strikes me when reading your posts: on the one hand, it seems obvious that the majority of Americans want to get out of Iraq and think it was a bad idea. But on the other hand, if this were simply the case, then why would it matter what the media says and how they frame the issue? If the "American people" were really so against the war, wouldn't they just ignore all this tripe and vote Obama overwhelmingly? But then you have the fact that McCain is still doing relatively well in matchup polls, and the polls that say a majority of Americans 'trust' McCain to 'handle' the war and national security better than Obama. What do you make of this? What it suggests to me is an electorate where the majority are not sure of their own opinions, hold self-contradictory views, and can be easily swayed simply by the wording of an issue. But I'd like to hear your analysis.
