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112, Petty?
Posted by johnny_domino, Tue Oct-26-04 04:59 AM
It's been a little over 200 years since we fought a war so that the King of England couldn't tell us what to do. You think Americans are eager to get "electoral guidance" from Brits? The point isn't that all Americans think this way, but that it's more likely for an undecided voter to react negatively to this type of thing. However well-intentioned it is (and I'm not sure it's really THAT well-intentioned), it's very ill thought-out. If you really want Bush out of office, the best thing you can do is NOT write letters to Americans in swing states, advising them on how you wish they'd vote.

Is any of this making sense to you, or are you still seeing it as Americans being "petty" or "xenophobic"? Because if it's not clicking for you beyond those levels at this point, I dunno what else I can do to explain it.