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Spring 2000 - midmorning in America’s hangover from the whole Lewinsky-and-impeachment point - signifies a moment of virtually unparalleled cynicism and disgust with national politics, a second when blunt, I-really don't-give-a-shit-if-you-elect-me honesty gets to be an incredibly appealing and salable and electable excellent. But if you, like inadequate old Rolling Stone, have come to a point on the Trail where you’ve begun fearing your individual cynicism almost as a lot as you fear your possess credulity and the salesmen who feed on it, you may come across your feelings returning once more and once more to a specified dark and box-sized mobile in a certain Hilton 50 % a environment and 3 professions away, to the torture and fear and supply of launch and a sure Young Voter named McCain’s refusal to violate a Code. Suppose, let us say, you’ve bought a candidate who suggests polls are bullshit and fully refuses to tailor his campaign fashion to polls, and suppose then that new polls start out showing that people today seriously like this candidate’s polls-are-bullshit stance and are pondering about voting for him since of it, and suppose the prospect reads these polls (who would not?) and then starts saying even additional loudly and usually that polls are bullshit and that he won’t use them to determine what to say, it's possible turning "Polls are bullshit" into a marketing campaign line and repeating it in every speech and even painting Polls Are Bullshit on the facet of his bus