Joe Bernstein  wrote: 
 >In article ,   
 >wrote: 
  
 >> I can't stress this enough.  Many, many, many proponents 
 >> underestimate the support they have. 
  
  
 >Like the vast majority of other groups voted on in the last six 
 >years.  The only thing I really have a problem with in what Ru 
 >Igarashi wrote is the last sentence.  True, many proponents 
 >underestimate the support they have.  But MMMMMAAAAANNNNYYYY 
 >proponents overestimate the support they have, or at least, how 
 >much of that support consists of people willing and ready to vote. 
 >"We don't need to let people know" is Famous Last Words, coming 
 >from proponents. 
  
 Um, actually, I did actually mean "overestimate".  Thanks for 
 the correction.  That is, Joe is not contradicting me; what 
 he says is what I really meant (i.e. "many, many, many proponents 
 *overestimate* the suppoert they have"). 
  
 ru 
  
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