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Old 10-17-2008, 11:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Eric5273
True, true. I had a friend in high school whose parents went to Yale, so it didn't matter what his grades were, he was going to get into Yale. But that is a very small minority.

But it's not like Bush fooled anyone. When people were asked back in 2000 why they were voting for him, the most common answers I heard were things like "he is a regular guy" or "he looks like someone I could have a beer with". Nobody at all confused him with being an educated elite type.
So with that you just said that the average person will pick someone like them, not elite So what were ya talking about in post 10?
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