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

To: TraderGreg who wrote (4270)	12/2/2000 11:28:39 AM
From: CYBERKEN	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

<<In 1912, Wilson got a rocking 41.8% and in 1968 Nixon got 43.4%.>> And both were comfortably re-elected even though Wilson's administration was a total disaster and Nixon's was rocked by scandal. With the American version of the Stalinist "Cult of the Personality' neatly deposed by the constitution, the Dems acquire a difficult image problem. Liberalism just doesn't sell anymore, but they have to somehow keep their whacko left-wing base. Just another interesting factor in our unpredictable political evolution. The polarization is definitely real, and this election, no matter how it's finally resolved, was a complete bust for the public. The next step, IMO, is for the dissonance to gradually resolve. And anyone's prediction at this point is purely speculative...

To: TraderGreg who wrote (4270)	12/2/2000 6:57:34 PM
From: moosebeary	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6710

<<The first Republican ever elected President got 39.82% of the vote...I guess in your eyes he was a real loser. His name was Lincoln. In 1912, Wilson got a rocking 41.8% and in 1968 Nixon got 43.4%. Case closed.>> And, Greg, that great Socialist leader, Hitler, was elected with 31% of the vote, if memory serves. The point isn't that it is impossible to elect a great leader in a fragmented election, but, rather, that it is all to easy to elect a disaster-waiting-to-happen. Case open. Moose