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"Republicans have never approved of democracy, and they never will."

The good Doctor Hunter S. Thompson takes a look at Fear and Loathing, Campaign 2004. Via Zed at MemeMachineGo. One of Thompsons's theories is that the election will go to whoever wants it more, which I think ties in nicely with what John Zogby was saying on Morning Sedition today. Essentially, he observed, the undecided voters aren't necessarily undecided between Bush and Kerry, they have no intention of voting for Bush. The indecision is whether to vote for Kerry or for someone else or just stay home, because Kerry (or perhaps the political process itself) hasn't shown them whatever they're looking for in a reason to vote for someone, not just against someone else. Maybe that "whatever they're looking for" is an obvious desire to "want it more."