Quote Originally Posted by Rex Brynen View Post
The target of the NIE was not, however, the American voting public, and its "failure" can therefore hardly be assessed in those terms.
Au contraire, the unclassified version of the NIE was most assuredly intended for public consumption. With this National Survey of the public reaction to it the purpose of the unclassified NIE most assuredly can be assessed as a failure. We'll see come November '08 just how much of a failure.