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To: J_F_Shepard who wrote (31440)	2/25/2004 6:11:34 PM
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How many of these alleged 13,641 Clinton draft dodging stories were from 1992? How many of these were in major media outlets? Your source, who worked for Clinton, ran his search in 2001. His assertion that Clinton hits were 13,641 & Bush hits were 49 is highly incredulous. Today the the internet is huge. It was tiny in 1992. It didn't take off until the late 1990's. Yes, there are a lot of stories in cyberspace about Clinton's draft dodging - a vast majority of them posted after his second election in 1996. However, we are talking about 1992, when coverage of this story could have affected voters. That was only 12 years ago. I watched the evening news almost every day & I regularly read the news papers. I traveled a lot back then, so I read many different newspapers from many cities. Had I known then that Clinton lied repeatedly & there was documentary evidence proving he lied, I never would have voted for him. I recall there was very little coverage to the story. When it was covered, it was mostly to frame it as a Republican smear campaign.