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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: Orcastraiter who wrote (8917)6/15/2004 2:17:43 PM
From: mph  Read Replies (2) of 90947
 
Btw, if more than half the country is so in love with Gore, why isn't he the democrat nominee this time?

Four years passed. If you think that politics is static, and that the electorate doesn't change it's mind from time to time, then you have forgotten the lesson of what "read my lips" did to the last Bush presidency.

An observation that politics is (not) static
and that the electorate changes its mind is too facile
an explanation for why is Gore is neither the candidate
nor a real power within the Democratic party.

His situation is quite unique, given the assertions
made, to this very date, that he was the rightfully
elected President, that he was "cheated out" of the
Presidency, that he won the popular vote, etc. etc. etc.

Had the outcome of the prior election not been so hotly contested, and bemoaned by Gore supporters
to this very date, you might have a point.

However, given that perspective, it is really curious
that Gore did not emerge this time around.

What do you think the real reason is?
Fickleness on the part of voters doesn't cut it, imho.

<edit: just saw this post:

Message 20223576

Does this mean you think the reason is that he moved
to the left from the center?

Doesn't that still make him to the right of Kerry?<g>)
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