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Lou Dobbs for president? Who has the TV personality been listening to?
It's something we in the news business hear a lot. A potential candidate comes in and says that many people have come to him asking that he run for (fill in the office blank here).
The mistake is that the potential candidate translates 10 buddies suggesting that he run for office into thousands of voters wanting him to do the same.
So, who's asking Dobbs to run for office? No doubt, his fans from his days as CNN anchor and general rabble-rouser are all for it. Or at least some of them. That's probably about 10,000 sure votes.
Dobbs got wildly popular when he quit being a business-type reporter and latched onto the illegal immigration wagon. He then went over the cliff by falling in with the whacky Tea Partiers and the group that doubts President Obama's U.S. citizenship. Note to Lou: Those groups overlap so adjust your vote-counting accordingly.
This got started when Dobbs was interviewed on a radio talk show. The interviewer joked about the "crazy" idea that Dobbs would run for president in 2012. Dobbs responded: "What's so crazy about that?"
"Well, I'll tell you this much: it's one of the discussions that we're having," Dobbs said. "For the first time, I'm actually listening to some people about politics."
Be careful to whom you listen, Lou.
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