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To: Lane3 who wrote (115256)	5/21/2005 7:53:29 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793914

Don't let it break your heart, Tim. Not heartbreaking. Frustrating. In its most extreme forms angering, but not heartbreaking. It would take activist reactionaries to undo the major trends, not constitutional conservatives. Perhaps we disagree on the meaning of the term judicial activist. I don't support the notion that the other side (in terms of political and judicial and constitutional philosophy, I'm not exactly talking Democrats vs. Republicans) gets to move as much in its direction as it can and then things should never move back. Judicial activism to me is moving away from the constitution through judicial decisions. We have developed a very strange sense of proportion. We call winning 55 percent of the vote a landslide, for heaven's sake. I might consider using that term as we approach 80 percent. It was an electoral vote landslide and was won of the biggest popular vote differentials in modern history. In 1984 it wasn't 55% it was 49 of 50 states (or 51 counting DC) and just under 59% of the vote with an 18.2% margin. There have been only 4 bigger wins, in terms of the popular vote since 1820 (before that many stated didn't select their electors by popular vote). No candidate has ever won more states. Still its not unreasonable to say it wasn't a landslide (although I don't think it is unreasonable to say it was). If you don't consider it a landslide probably no selection since George Washington counts as one. Tim