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This piece at CBS<\/a> suggests that, at least initially, there won\u2019t be much of an electoral shift, apart from the tightening of the polls that had already happened over the previous week. \u00a0 Most of the results make sense. \u00a0Republicans are more skeptical, Democrats\u00a0more forgiving. \u00a0Yet one thing caught my eye. \u00a0According to the CBS Battleground Tracker, 13% of Democrats say that the FBI letter makes them more likely to support Hillary. \u00a0That I don\u2019t get.<\/p>\n

I get not letting it change your opinion of her. \u00a0And yes, I get thinking it could make her look bad. \u00a0But saying that because of this particular turn of events, I\u2019m now more likely to support her than ever before? \u00a0Sorry, but that seems to be the sort of blind partisan loyalty that Trump is supposed to enjoy. \u00a0In fact, I don\u2019t remember many polls saying that because of all the revelations and accusations, Trump\u2019s supporters would be more likely to support him. If anything, it caused the wary to abandon him. \u00a0I couldn\u2019t find a single poll \u00a0that said the accusations against Trump made people more likely to support him. They might support him despite the accusations or because they believe the accusations to be false, but not that the accusations themselves made people more likely to support him. \u00a0Perhaps they\u2019re out there, I didn\u2019t find them.<\/p>\n

But this one says so. \u00a0This one has a whopping 13% of Democrats more likely to support Clinton, precisely because of this new turn of events and because of the FBI letter. \u00a0I think that this is the sort of thing, as much as any issue or topic under discussion, that the Bishops and the general leadership of the Church warn against. \u00a0A sort of \u2018I\u2019m for this team no matter what\u2019 attitude. \u00a0The idea that something that could, even remotely, suggest wrongdoing and my first reaction is to hunker down and double my support? \u00a0I\u2019m sure it\u2019s not confined to one side of the political aisle, but it certainly isn\u2019t absent in this poll.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"