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From the Program on International Policy Attitudes:
As the nation prepares to watch the presidential candidates debate foreign policy issues, a new PIPA-Knowledge Networks poll finds that Americans who plan to vote for President Bush have many incorrect assumptions about his foreign policy positions. Kerry supporters, on the other hand, are largely accurate in their assessments. The uncommitted also tend to misperceive Bush’s positions, though to a smaller extent than Bush supporters, and to perceive Kerry’s positions correctly. Steven Kull, director of PIPA, comments: “What is striking is that even after nearly four years President Bush’s foreign policy positions are so widely misread, while Senator Kerry, who is relatively new to the public and reputed to be unclear about his positions, is read correctly.”
Anyone care to take a swing at explaining this? Good old fashioned college-style BS is perfectly acceptable...

Comments
on Sep 30, 2004
This doesn't surprise me at all. There is a willful ignorance on the far right.
on Sep 30, 2004
Well, it's possibly because Bush supporters tend to be confused about MOST things
on Sep 30, 2004
I've seen the same type articles about Kerry. Kerry has made so many disperate statements, though, that almost anyone can find him agreeing with them at some time or another. The fact is, he has very ambiguous beliefs about things like gun control, capital punishment, etc., that I am sure his very diverse following would be surprised about. If you sit around here long enough you'll see people post completely opposite things as Kerry's stance.

" Well, it's possibly because Bush supporters tend to be confused about MOST things"


Since they let you come back I guess we can expect the jackass quotient to stay well above a healthy level...