Reply #5: I'm not sure I agree with you.

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Until the repukes started throwing mud, about 1998, there was a common understanding that mud slinging does not work. But now everyone throws mud and in the majority of cases it does work. So what happened? It use to be that when someone threw mud the mudslinger looked nasty and hateful. Some of that mud stuck to his hands and the polls and votes clearly showed this. But not now. Now a politician can throw all the mud he wants but voters don't seem to care that he is an SOB. So I ask you what happened to change this???