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Originally Posted by Senator Clay Davis
Fear doesn't usually drive the ballot box though. It drives issues, but not voters. Republicans tried damn hard to work up the fear in 2012 and it didn't work, they got a lower turnout in 2012 than 2008 when in 08 the message was mostly dominated by Obama's hope (and Sarah Palin is a boob).
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And yet the US is a country utterly ruled by fear, on every level.