In this leafy suburb of Columbus, a swing district in a closely contested state, voters were talking Wednesday about the Gore-Bush debate--and in the mysterious alchemy of public opinion, agreeing that it didn't change many minds either way.

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What Judge Alito said, in this dissenting opinion, was that the possession of machine guns wasn't something that Congress could reach under the Commerce Clause.

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But it also perhaps says something about Vice President Cheney, whose political fortunes are quite bad and who doesn't have the heft he once had in terms of public opinion.

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Personally I'm glad you, and all who are of the same opinion, won't be haunting us in our nice, fresh, clean-air pubs.

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"My brother and I are of the opinion that we don't want to be seen to be basking in reflected glory, " she said.

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In her majority opinion, Judge Judith Rogers said the programmers' case faltered because they couldn't cite an example of a cable operator who isn't either already using all-digital operations or moving in that direction.

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It may also make the results less vulnerable to a problem that pollsters have long recognised: people who feel the winds of public opinion shifting in their direction are more confident about telling pollsters what they think than those who don't.

ECONOMIST: The presidential election