Can you expound a bit more on this Dante...I'm not sure I get your meaning.
Break down that Luntz observation of yours some more if you will...sounds interesting.
Luntz is a complex character. I think he has always been more a data nerd than an ideologue. I believe even Tony Blankely (had he lived longer), like Luntz may have been under the spell of Newt and the revolution of the time, but smart people move on...they grow or they get stuck and become caricatures of themselves as Newt did.
I've seen Luntz on the major media outlets over the past few years (I don't do cable anymore) and at first I thought he was playing to the audience, but he appears to be more interested in being taken seriously and giving out precise info than in spinning, which is hilarious as he tutors others on how to spin. No one of any substance is one-dimensional, but some people are more complex in their make up than others...Luntz is one of those complex characters I find truly fascinating...sort of like Carville, Buchanan, Atwater, Ailes...
step back from your biases and prejudices and you will see Luntz for what he truly is...
I loved reading HL Mencken when I was younger. I used to buy out of print early editions of his works. Who knew, a street wise character with an intellectual side......and I always remember Mencken's Prejudices -- he crucified many a leading intellectual, but sometimes he praised ... what I learned form him was a technique on how to see more clearly through all the masks and facades.
funny thing is most people walk away from his readings and only remember the biting cynicism and criticism. They miss the forest for the trees.
give Luntz a closer look. study Luntz as he does his subjects. For all his partisan work, he rarely if ever steers his subjects or clients in the wrong direction. On many levels he;s an honest man
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riiiight Luntz gets a pass?
and all of those 'focus groups' he ran on fox? overwhelming raised their hands that they were going for Romney?
maybe, he stacked the deck? wheres the outrage?
you love him now though wh/....
The problem is voter fraud.
One of Obama supporters said his campaign was really good at "Same-Day Registration".
That means manufacturing votes.
If we don't want a repeat of this nonsense we have to make sure that I.D.s are required and nobody votes unless they are registered and their address and citizenship is verified 6 months before the election.