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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: alan w who wrote (127845)	2/18/2001 4:31:26 PM
From: mst2000	Respond to of 769670

No, I disagree that 57% "clearly rejected" Clinton, because Perot voters were more or less evenly split between Clinton and his opponents (if they had not voted for Perot) --whereas Nader's supporters were clearly to the left of Gore, and maybe 7 out of 10 would have voted for Gore, and less than 1 out of 10 for Bush (the rest would have sat it out, according to pollsters). But more importantly, Bush did not win -- he lost the national vote by 500,000 votes, and got whupped in Florida but for the disenfranchisement of between 150,000 and 200,000 voters, the vast majority of whom were Democrats, and the post-election repression of a legal manual recount. I don't need to "get a grip" -- I'm just waiting for the process to play itself out, and the truth about this election to be confirmed by objective observers who are not under any pressure to force a result -- especially the wrong result -- as soon as possible because of some ridiculous interpretation of the constitution that took away a state's rights to make and enforce its own election laws. Have a good one yourself. MST