Krystal Ball

And so it's like, this guy is saying nice things about Hezbollah.

People are like, well...

Maybe Israel shouldn't be occupying southern Lebanon, destroying statues of Christ, blowing up, using white phosphorus, blowing up villages, Christian and Muslim.

And so the charge that he said something nice about Hezbollah doesn't land the same way when people have a more fulsome understanding of who Hezbollah is resisting.

Yeah, and we talked about this last week.

We did that poll with Dropsite and Zateo where we asked, basically, is AIPAC a proxy for you?

And if somebody is willing to stand up, if somebody is not willing to stand up to AIPAC, do you think that they will sell you out on other issues?

And something like 70 plus percent of Democratic primary voters were like, yes, I agree with that statement.

Yeah.

So people are like, oh, this is just a foreign policy issue.

It's just a few million people over in the Middle East.

No, to them, it

To them, we're busy people.

It's hard for us to figure out who we can put our trust in to represent us in Washington.

And so you need to look for these clues.

For a while, it used to be Medicare.

If they say they support Medicare for all, that's going to cost them a lot of corporate donors.

And that's a signal to me of where they stand.

And so even if you already had health insurance and wasn't your number one issue, it's like, okay, I get it.

I'm with this person over here because they said that.