Ever notice how, for those who came of age in the '60s and '70s, every inkblot on a map looks like Vietnam?

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And sometimes it's all one giant inkblot, like a Rorschach test.

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Some voters who did understand the main provisions of Lisbon treated it like a Rorschach inkblot, using the referendum to vent their broader frustrations about Europe, Ireland and how they were ruled.

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