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

To: Zoltan! who wrote (167925)	8/6/2001 10:09:50 AM
From: DMaA	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

This is going to be fun: WSJ - Jeffords: Dairy Queen: There are two Democratic Senators each in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North and South Dakota. Two of those senators, Paul Wellstone of Minnesota and Tim Johnson of South Dakota, face difficult re-election fights in 2002, as does Iowa liberal Tom Harkin. It will be fun hearing them explain to their home-state farmers why Mr. Daschle decided that Vermonters deserved better Democratic treatment.

To: Zoltan! who wrote (167925)	8/6/2001 11:33:02 AM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 769667

Bush 43 lost the popular vote by 500,000 -- not quite a tie. Of course we elect by electors, and Bush won due to the small-state bias that's built into the system. But however many ways you slice it, he lost the popular vote. especially the erroneous projection of FL for Gore which cost Bush tens of thousands of votes in FL alone I really have to admire the effectiveness of the constant conservative whining about a "liberal media", for which there is no evidence, unless you are to the right of Pat Buchanan and consider the whole political center leftist. It is impossible to know if Bush actually lost any votes due to Florida being called for Gore 10 minutes before the polls closed in the panhandle. Common sense tells you that 10 minutes is not a long time, the panhandle contains a small percentage of the voters, and its impact is doubtful. Not even Fox News could find one voter who said, "I was standing in line to vote and when I heard CNN had called the state for Gore, I turned around and went home." Not one! And if the networks did Bush a disfavor at 7:50 pm, they made up for it by doing him a BIG favor at 4:00 am when they incorrectly called the state for Bush, thus setting up the psychology of the recount fight very much in Bush's favor. I submit that Bush43 did not learn from Bush41 about Dem tactics That's an odd thing to say, considering that Bush 43 was instrumental in running Bush 41's 1988 campaign. Did he keep his eyes shut?