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To: TigerPaw who wrote (75317)	11/15/2000 9:51:49 AM
From: Don Pueblo	Respond to of 769670

What are you smoking?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (75317)	11/15/2000 9:52:56 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

That is a not unreasonable scenario......

To: TigerPaw who wrote (75317)	11/15/2000 9:57:14 AM
From: SecularBull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

Hey, pass that over here... LoF

To: TigerPaw who wrote (75317)	11/15/2000 9:59:29 AM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769670

Today should be one of the most interesting parts of this spectacle. Once the hand count begins in Palm Beach the outcome will take on a sense of inevitability. James Baker will do his level best to stop it, but it's going to take an appearance from boy-George himself if he hopes to come up with any reason to stop the count without severe backlash. I personally think he will duck it, and after a few Baker press conferences the recount will begin and the Gore total will increase hour by hour. The next act will be Friday when they try again to stop the election with the final absentee ballot. TP

To: TigerPaw who wrote (75317)	11/15/2000 10:08:03 AM
From: Timothy W. Johnson	Respond to of 769670

<Gore is going to do quite well in his presidency. (IMHO) The insults and personal destruction attacks have been overused to the point of inefficacy. Expectations will be low and the stock market has already deflated enough to allow for good performance if not spooked by a tax cut. I think he will do well enough that a few more congressional seats will be picked up in the midterm elections. That will create enough news about congress and new chairmen and styles that by the time his re-election rolls around everyone will have forgotten this mess. Everyone except the clown posse and a few old codgers but they weren't going to vote for Gore's re-election anyway.> TP - After Gore tries to litigate against the will of the people, he will not have an opportunity to crash the market. As much as he tries to bring everybody down together, he will not succeed.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (75317)	11/15/2000 10:13:41 AM
From: Neocon	Respond to of 769670

Now that I have finished some correspondence, and can turn my attention to you fully, I will give a more complete response. You are right enough to adduce low expectations as a bonus for Gore, assuming he significantly exceeds them. That, however, is not likely. He will be weaker on the Hill than Clinton was. He ran a business bashing campaign, and although his willingness to accept corporate money belied his class warfare rhetoric, it is unlikely that Wall Street will have the same amount of complacency that it has for Clinton. Thus, it will be a cautious and volatile couple of years in the market, at least until mid- terms. As for the overall economy, as long as nothing much happens, I think it will hum along pretty well, but there will be jitters. Gore does not have the personal charm or popularity to rally the people to any great degree, and is likely to be perceived more negatively as time goes on. I say this for the simple reason that in this campaign, the more people saw Gore, the less they liked him. His numbers tended to go up when he was less visible, with the one exception of the convention, which was terribly staged. Finally, you may call it smear if you like, but inquiries into the export of sensitive technology to China and laxity in national laboratories will not go away, nor will other issues. Some of it will hurt Gore. In the end, it is likely enough that the Republicans will pick up seats in the mid- terms, because the public will perceive that as the better way of ending deadlock and addressing outstanding issues...........