Reply #12: Those running for office will meet with virtually anyone? [View All]

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Uh Joan? Were you asleep during the entirety of 2004? George W. Bush, during his entire re-election campaign, didn't meet once with an audience that wasn't canned or pre-screened to a fare thee well. A lot of people noticed it, and a lot of people tried to point it out to the worthies at the Boston Globe and the other media outlets, but for some reason, it was never deemed newsworthy enough to point out the fallacy of your little bit of received political wisdom: That candidates running for office will meet with virtually anyone. George W. Bush sure as the world didn't all through 2004. How could you have missed that?