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To: Borzou Daragahi who wrote (19042)	12/13/1998 5:35:00 PM
From: Les H	Respond to of 67261

It's quite common to have runoff elections in cases where no one garners a majority of the vote. That would apply to 1980 as well as 1992, 1996, etc. Localities do it all the time. One of the problems with having an elected official gaining office on less than 50% of the vote is lack of support. Reagan's popularity gained after the assassination attempt and the recovery of the economy in 1982. He and Thatcher were quite unpopular during the recession of 1991.

To: Borzou Daragahi who wrote (19042)	12/17/1998 1:15:00 PM
From: Zoltan!	Respond to of 67261

>>That whole "didn't get a majority" b.s. is getting tiresome. Neither did Reagan in 1980. Run-off election? Please, Les. You know the constitution. I believe you are a very intelligent person, far too intelligent to parrot the Limbaughesque rhetoric of the right. There you go again, making things up. You must be a journalist because nothing informs you but your politics. Reagan got @51% of the vote in the three way race in 1980. A majority of voters rejected and voted against Clinton in 1992 and 1996. I believe that a first, though Wilson may also qualify as a fellow two-term minority president. When don't you try expanding your resources and get an almanac to survey before you spout your loaded inaccuracies. Btw, Clinton's personal poll numbers are as low as Nixon's were during the depths of Watergate and that's why the people will not care if he goes. The "job approval" numbers that the Dems tout are just proxies for the economy.