A new TIME Magazine poll shows President Bush taking a large lead on John Kerry in the middle of the Republican convention, 52% to 41%, which makes this quote from the article kind of amusing:
It's an underlying premise of his (Chomsky's) work that you ... just tell all the facts to the people. The way ideology works today is much more mysterious. ... There's an active refusal to know. ... The question isn't of any real link between al-Qaeda and the Iraqi regime. ... Both Saddam and al-Qaeda hate the U.S. That's enough of a link. You cannot really help by making factual refutations. The key factor is not that people are duped — there's an active will not to know.”
Is he right? Is it logical to assume that if people listened to the "facts" on GW Bush that they would logically not vote for him? Or is that also true of John Kerry?
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