Second Short Quiz

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Second Short Quiz

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Sunday – 27 July 2008 – E-mailed between 1:07 am EDT and 4:04 am EDT

Dear Friends,

(Info about August 13th meeting omitted.)

There follows a SECOND short quiz, which is traditional before the meeting each quarter featuring the 5-week gap between meetings (suggested answers to both last week's and this week's quizzes will be included with next weekend's e-mail). Unlike last week's quiz, most of whose answers could be found in our featured book, the following questions come from recent media articles:

1. What is a "wedge issue"?

2. On what two wedge issues did Barack and Congressional Democrats cave in this summer in an attempt to remove them from the fall election campaigns?

3. On what remaining wedge issue is the Congressional Democratic leadership desperately trying to prevent a vote because "Blue Dog" Democrats would vote with Republicans?

4. According to psychological studies, what is the greatest traumatic event for American males after their 30th birthday? What is its significance for the 2008 Presidential election?

5. Who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Committee's Subcommittee on European Affairs including NATO matters? How many meetings has this subcommittee had? What is the significance of this?

6. What topic will dominate the headlines from September 15th through election day?

7. Who is forced to choose his Vice Presidential running mate first?

8. Who does Tom Brokaw (per his comments while hosting Meet the Press) think are likely Vice Presidential running mates?

9. What is the significance of Q&A 8 and 9?

10. What does the early polling for the Presidential campaign imply when combined with a constant feature of the polling during the Democratic primary campaign?

The reasons for posing these questions are (1) to gain an appreciation of how difficult it may be for Barack to be elected, and (2) to put us in a proper frame of mind to spend part of our meeting on August 13th functioning as a focus group that might achieve some insights worth sharing with friends and acquaintances (after all, there are only "six degrees of separation" between us and 100% of the American electorate) AND PERHAPS EVEN APPROPRIATE CAMPAIGN OFFICIALS.

Your friend,

John K.

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