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Greenwald in Salon.com …

the centerpiece of Karl Rove’s 2006 midterm strategy was to depict the Democrats as “soft on terror” .. yet the Republicans were crushed in that election in one of the most humiliating defeats of the last several decades … While Terrorism fear-mongering was undoubtedly potent in the few years after 9/11, and still works on a part of the population even today, its efficacy as a political weapon is vastly overrated. Throughout the Bush years, media figures routinely claimed that the public overwhelmingly supported Bush/Cheney “terrorism” policies about which Americans were, in fact, largely split down the middle (or even opposed), including warrantless eavesdropping, the Iraq War and torture policies. Why does this conventional political and media wisdom persist even in the face of fairly strong empirical data negating it?

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