Re: Re: Re: Stop the name calling

[Jim Devine]

At 07:53 AM 11/9/00 -0800, you wrote:
>You think that Nader's 3% showing is impressive?

Maybe it was impressive once you think of the fact that Nader voters were 
showered by a sh*t-storm of abuse and fear-mongering. The more that Nader 
seemed to be getting, the more the fear level was ratcheted upward. The 
closeness of the election -- and the domination of the winner-take-all 
system -- also encouraged fear-mongering. If it had been an LBJ vs. 
Goldwater type election, 3% would have definitely been unimpressive (since 
the former had such a big margin). But it wasn't.

Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] &  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine