Can't Get the Spot Out, Petey

Greg Mitchell:

The most idiotic campaign punditry in recent days has been the assertion that the Iraq war as an issue is so over. Like, so last summer. It started with Peter Beinart’s absurd, self-seving column in The Washington Post, which took as its main evidence the fact questions about the war were not being asked all that much at the Democratic and Republican debates...

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Now, today, comes a new Gallup poll which, of course, reveals, as Gallup puts it, that when “asked which issues will be most important in determining their vote for president in next year's election, Americans by a wide margin say the war in Iraq, with more than one in three mentioning the war...