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Thread #104336 Message #2137206
Posted By: McGrath of Harlow
30-Aug-07 - 07:41 PM
Thread Name: BS: Television: The Anti-Americans
Subject: RE: BS: Television: The Anti-Americans
I'm not surprised if it's hard to find people who admit to voting for Bush. The same happened in the case of Margaret Thatcher and Tony Blair, over here.
There's always a tendency for people to retrospectively adjust their voting record in their memory, in line with how a politician turns oyut in office. It's been repeatedly shown in polls asking how people voted - most time the proportion who say they voted for the winner is way down on the actual record.
Occasionaly it goes the other way and people say - and probably actually belueve they voted for someone who seems to be doing well. But the general rule is the other way round.