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Politics : Electoral College 2000 - Ahead of the Curve -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TraderGreg who wrote (1299)	11/9/2000 11:47:34 AM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

No one liked my Abe Lincoln election item? Not true. It was quite interesting. I was pondering adding a UK perspective but thought I would pass. I was reading a British perspective of the civil war a short time ago and it confirmed your earlier stated view regarding secession. The British view continues a little further. The only reason slavery came up at all was that it provided a excuse to keep Europe from helping the South. It was therefore a political move by the North. Jim Baker is supposed to be on Bloomberg very shortly. jttmab

To: TraderGreg who wrote (1299)	11/9/2000 11:53:40 AM
From: k.ramesh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 6710

The current problem is a counting problem or at worst a constitutional crisis if they let it happen. Does not come close to Real historical events like Abolition,WWII etc. Sometime in the last 48 hrs it seemed to me that while bangladesh and other Russia and others have real problems the US is just chasing its own tail having imaginary problems to entertain itself. Monica and Impeachment, the show of shows, and now this. The real problems on the other hand have historic inevitability, eg the India's freedom movement started probably in 1857, 90 years before Gandhi presided over the actual independence! . Nader might have pointed out some harsh truths about the US which might snowball into a big one down the road.