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[PEN-L:4924] Re: news from SLATE



Jim Devine wrote:

>>The WSJ's new poll shows that now 64 percent of Americans
approve of the air campaign, with 27 percent opposed.>>

In terms of the potential effectiveness of popular resistance this
is a figure to make one optimistic. It would cause pessimism only
in a mind inextricably sunk in the assumptions governing electoral
politics.

One caution: The vast majority of this 27% would not be prepared
to participate in mass politics -- but even the superficial belief
expressed in a poll is something to start with.

Carrol



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