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To: Ilaine who wrote (29131)	5/9/2002 10:57:20 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Interesting thought. Abstaining. Every time I voted in a presidential election I voted a lesser evil. Never a positive vote. The McGovern vote was one of those. I liked the man, liked his political take on things, but thought he was way out of his element in a presidential race. Just voted against Nixon. But your post made me go back to see how close I was to abstaining. Perhaps the 76 election--Carter and Ford. But abstaining has always been whether there was a decent Republican candidate. They've always been so bad I had to vote against them, even if the Dem was not terribly exciting. Did vote for one at the senatorial level. In 68 I voted for Chuck Percy in Illinois who was running against Paul Douglas. Douglas was a major Vietnam war hawk; Percy was opposed.