"It ain't what you don't know. It's what you think you know that ain't so that's dangerous."
I was reminded of this pithy little saying last week, when confidence in Barack's lead in a few recent national polls, his turning away from the traditional public campaign financing system, and the uproar over his announcement of support for the latest FISA bill all collided and left me contemplating a few disturbing possibilities.
As someone who is deeply concerned about his FISA position, I toyed with the idea of withholding a contribution this month to express my displeasure. But a little investigation convinced me that withholding a contribution could be more damaging than I expected, that strengthening his coalition of supporters is more essential now than ever to winning in November, and that his FISA turn may have more to do with specific weaknesses in his polling than anything about the Fourth Amendment.
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