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OPINION: Listen to the doubtful voters

by BARBARA OSTIPWKO/Guest Opinion
| June 24, 2026 1:00 AM

A day or two ago, a wise leader alerted me to a letter written in 1840 by Abraham Lincoln. 

The future president laid out a strategy for breaking entrenched politicians’ hold on power. It has proven to be correct time and again. “Keep a constant watch on the doubtful voters, Lincoln wrote, and from time to time have them talked to by those in whom they have the most confidence.” Today, voters are indeed doubtful. They are very disappointed, and even disgusted, with MAGA’s mistaken policies. Voters are tired of political chaos and afraid of rising gasoline and grocery prices (US oil reserves are at a 40-year low.) We should listen to voters, because they hold the key to overcoming entrenched leaders. 

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