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Politics : Al Gore vs George Bush: the moderate's perspective -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: mst2000 who wrote (9361)	1/16/2001 9:40:08 AM
From: alan w	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10042

Yeah I puked when Clinton won 43% of the vote and tried to redo health care. Illegally too I might add. Closed door sessions with the first witch presiding. Which reminds me, the arrogant "mental midgets" have less than a week to vacate the white house. Bill and Hillary will soon take their rightful place at the bottom of the presidential barrel. The party's over. By the way, has anyone heard what algore will be doing with all his spare time? alan w

To: mst2000 who wrote (9361)	1/16/2001 1:51:54 PM
From: Slugger	Respond to of 10042

Fox Poll: Countdown to Inauguration 3:36 p.m. ET January 12, 2001 By Dana Blanton NEW YORK — In the week leading up to his inauguration, President-elect George W. Bush receives positive marks on the team he has put together to run his administration. In this week's FOX News/Opinion Dynamics nationwide poll of registered voters, over half rate the quality of people Bush has selected to be in his Cabinet as "excellent" or "good," and 49 percent think the nominees are neither too conservative nor too liberal, but "mainstream" politically. One-fifth think the selections are "too conservative," only three percent say "too liberal," and 27 percent don't know enough yet to tell. When compared to the Clinton administration, a plurality expects the Bush administration to be more effective (42 percent), and a majority think it will be more ethical (59 percent). Twenty-nine percent say the Bush administration will be less effective, while only 16 percent expect it to be less ethical than the Clinton administration. As they have been on so many other things, including the election itself, Americans are evenly divided on how the process of reviewing Bush's Cabinet choices is being conducted. Thirty-nine percent think the scrutiny of nominees is being done fairly; however, the same number (39 percent) think it's being handled in a partisan fashion. "The president-elect is beginning with favorable ratings after what everyone agrees was a bitter and partisan election. There is enough good feeling that people are going to give him a chance to prove himself," commented Opinion Dynamics President John Gorman. "However, it is also clear that the divisions still exist-and are strongly held by some. The new president has less room for even small mistakes than his recent predecessors." Bush's favorability rating remains steady at 58 percent - a full 10 percentage points higher than President Clinton's. Although Clinton has a fairly high unfavorable rating (46 percent), most Americans (57 percent) do not want to see him face charges in the Monica Lewinsky case after he leaves office. If Independent Counsel Robert Ray were to indict Clinton, 45 percent think President Bush should pardon him, up from 34 percent support for a pardon in April 2000. Even more, fully 62 percent (including a majority of both Republicans and Democrats) agree with Senator Orrin Hatch's comment on FOX News Sunday that no jury in America would convict Bill Clinton. foxnews.com

To: mst2000 who wrote (9361)	1/17/2001 2:00:44 AM
From: AmericanVoter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10042

that is what you claim...and may be even believe... the facts do not support your claim... was the vote count in Philadelphia accurate or fraudulent... wasn't that count that made Mr. Gore get the 300K extra votes to claim that he won the popular vote....if memory serves me right, 1.3 M residents, 1M registered voter...so, the people who are not eligible to vote, and the people who are not registered are a mere 300K... and on top of all that, 98% of the african americans there voted for Mr. Gore... when the highest % ever was 53% ... was the distributing of cigaretts a get-out-the-vote good will act... and many many more activities that are at best suspect to put it delicately... Mr. Gore is a good talker... how can he not be when he is capable of saying anything (right, wrong, exaggeration or even a total fabrication), that suits the situation... now is that a quality you want in the president... I sure don't... regards amein alsuezi "Believe me, you have the easier part of the "get over it" equation. The first step, BTW, is to get past denial -- i.e., stop pretending that Bush really won. He lost, by a much wider margin than anybody on the GOP side would have believed going into election day"