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To: i-node who wrote (193252)	7/3/2004 10:19:11 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576295

re: Clinton, Carville & Begala repeated "Its the Economy, Stupid" until the American public actually believed it WAS the economy -- when, in fact, the economy was fine. Are you nuts or suffering from memory loss? "It's the economy stupid" was an internal reminder to the Clinton staff that that was the number one issue, and it was at the time 'cause there wasn't a idiotic war going on. "It's the economy stupid" was never a slogan... you think they were calling the voters stupid? re: They repeatedly used such Clinton-speak as "Investment" for "Wasteful Spending" until people actually thought blowing money was "investment". Bush is the King of "investment"... he's invested us into a record deficit. Your kids are going to be paying huge taxes for most of their lives as a result of Bush's "investments". The Democrats try to sell complex programs, the Republicans are smarter marketers; they sell consistent sound bites repeated over and over, every chance they get. But as we get into the conventions, and the debates, people will start to look deeper. And Kerry will have the advantage. John

To: i-node who wrote (193252)	7/3/2004 2:34:12 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576295

US lawmakers request UN observers for November 2 presidential election WASHINGTON : Several members of the House of Representatives have requested the United Nations to send observers to monitor the November 2 US presidential election to avoid a contentious vote like in 2000, when the outcome was decided by Florida. Recalling the long, drawn out process in the southern state, nine lawmakers, including four blacks and one Hispanic, sent a letter Thursday to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan asking that the international body "ensure free and fair elections in America," according to a statement issued by Florida representative Eddie Bernice Johnson, who spearheaded the effort. "As lawmakers, we must assure the people of America that our nation will not experience the nightmare of the 2000 presidential election," she said in the letter. "This is the first step in making sure that history does not repeat itself," she added after requesting that the UN "deploy election observers across the United States" to monitor the November, 2004 election. The lawmakers said in the letter that in a report released in June 2001, the US Commission on Civil Rights "found that the electoral process in Florida resulted in the denial of the right to vote for countless persons." The bipartisan commission, they stressed, determined "that the 'disenfranchisement of Florida's voters fell most harshly on the shoulders of black voters' and in poor counties." Both groups vote predominantly Democratic in US elections. The commission also concluded, the lawmakers added, that "despite promised nationwide reforms (of the voting system) ... adequate steps have not been taken to ensure that a similar situation will not arise in 2004 that arose in 2000." Thirty-six days after the November 7, 2000 presidential election, after several state court interventions and vote recounts in numerous Florida counties, the US Supreme Court ruled in favor of Republican George W. Bush, awarding him all of Florida's 25 electoral votes. The ruling tipped the balance against Democratic contender and then vice president Al Gore, who with 267 electoral votes lost to Bush's 271, only one more than the minimum 270 needed to clinch the presidential election. channelnewsasia.com