I talked to a prominent Republican yesterday — I gave a talk to a bunch of Congressmen who belong to the Conservative Opportunity Society — who thought this whole Cheney thing was nonsense and that Cheney’s numbers went up with independent men and even Churchgoers. He seemed to have seen the numbers or it may have simply been what he’d heard. But, that certainly confirms my intuition. I simply don’t believe that Cheney is “radioactive” with very many people who aren’t already decided Bush haters.