If you can do this in a way that it's sort of being quietly done, it's not up on the big radar screen, that women in the suburbs feel really frightened by it, it makes a huge difference in energizing and getting people in more rural areas, small-town America, not only to vote.
Gergen explains how the culture wars can mobilize rural voters for McCain.
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I think the evidence is still coming in that this country is deeply divided.
I think, basically, this is about power. I think he wants to cripple Joe Biden before he ever gets started.
I think this the very idea that in 2024, we may have two men running against each other Biden and Trump, who would both be in their 80s if elected, that it too is enough to say, well, what are we doing here?
One more sign that he just doesn't give a damn how he changes our traditions and overrides our norms.
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