Would you guess that they are right-wing or middle-ground? I'm assuming that the hardcore Republicans all loved the speech -- it had lots of fine red meat to chew on, and appealed very strongly to tribalism.
I'm more interested in how independents felt about it -- the folks who aren't going to be prone to an automatic positive or negative gut reaction based on tribal loyalties. I don't consider many of my friends to be especially "independent" in that regard: the deep antipathy to anyone remotely linked to the current Republican leadership just runs too deep...
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Date: 2008-09-04 06:01 pm (UTC)I'm more interested in how independents felt about it -- the folks who aren't going to be prone to an automatic positive or negative gut reaction based on tribal loyalties. I don't consider many of my friends to be especially "independent" in that regard: the deep antipathy to anyone remotely linked to the current Republican leadership just runs too deep...