Off on the wrong track

[Dan Goncharoff]

If we are off the wrong track, we are either on the right track or derailed...

DanG



On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:36 PM, Katy Steinmetz
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> Or perhaps our deviance is so notable that we are off, as well as on the
> wrong track.
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> On 8/10/11 12:32 PM, "Dan Goncharoff" <thegonch at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> Perhaps we are on the right track, but off on the wrong foot?...
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>> On Wed, Aug 10, 2011 at 12:29 PM, Katy Steinmetz
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>>> > I just got some poll results from Ipsos that had this finding highlighted:
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>>> > =B3Almost three-quarters (73%) of the public now think that things in this
>>> > country are_=8Coff on the wrong track=B9_, which is the highest figure
>>> measured
>>> > since we began tracking this question for Reuters in early 2009.=B2
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>>> > Saying we=B9re =B3off=B2 on the wrong track rather than just on it seems to
>>> > suggest our route was a lot more haphazard than purposeful. Like we
>>> > collectively got distracted by our phones or some such.
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>>> http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/08/10/us-usa-poll-idUSTRE7794EX20110810=
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