Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-22 Thread Bryon Daly
From: "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 04:42 AM 1/21/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote: >It's not, actually. None of the people I had in mind >were in any way involved in politics. Most of them >were doctors, actually. Massachusetts politics is >very retail. But again, doctors aren't exact

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 04:42 AM 1/21/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote: > But again, doctors aren't exactly representative of > ordinary > Massachusettans.They tend to be the very sort of > highly-paid people who > would be likely to donate a couple hundred dollars

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-21 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 04:42 AM 1/21/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote: >It's not, actually. None of the people I had in mind >were in any way involved in politics. Most of them >were doctors, actually. Massachusetts politics is >very retail. But again, doctors aren't exactly representative of ordinary Massachusetta

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-21 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 09:00 PM 1/20/2004 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote: > I read Gautam's statement as implying that it was > not extraordinary for > ordinary Massachusettans to have run into one of > their Senators. > > JDG - Who has never so much as met his Congressi

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-21 Thread Kevin Tarr
At 11:17 PM 1/20/2004, you wrote: At 09:00 PM 1/20/2004 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote: > It's not that >far-fetched to have run into someone in eastern Massachusetts who'd have >run into some particular Congressman elected from that area sometime in >the past 20 years. Especially if you were seeking

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-20 Thread Julia Thompson
"John D. Giorgis" wrote: > > At 09:00 PM 1/20/2004 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote: > > It's not that > >far-fetched to have run into someone in eastern Massachusetts who'd have > >run into some particular Congressman elected from that area sometime in > >the past 20 years. Especially if you were see

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-20 Thread Julia Thompson
Robert Seeberger wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:00 PM > Subject: Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry) > >

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-20 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 09:00 PM 1/20/2004 -0600 Julia Thompson wrote: > It's not that >far-fetched to have run into someone in eastern Massachusetts who'd have >run into some particular Congressman elected from that area sometime in >the past 20 years. Especially if you were seeking out people who had >been active i

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-20 Thread Robert Seeberger
- Original Message - From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:00 PM Subject: Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry) > Julia Thompson wrote: > > > > "John

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-20 Thread Julia Thompson
Julia Thompson wrote: > > "John D. Giorgis" wrote: > > > > At 12:11 PM 1/20/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > >My own sense of Kerry comes from five years in Boston. > > > I kept running into liberal Democrats who hated, > > >hated, _hated_ George Bush. They also knew (as in had > > >met) John

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-20 Thread Julia Thompson
"John D. Giorgis" wrote: > > At 12:11 PM 1/20/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote: > >My own sense of Kerry comes from five years in Boston. > > I kept running into liberal Democrats who hated, > >hated, _hated_ George Bush. They also knew (as in had > >met) John Kerry (Massachusetts is a sufficientl

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-20 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 12:11 PM 1/20/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote: >My own sense of Kerry comes from five years in Boston. > I kept running into liberal Democrats who hated, >hated, _hated_ George Bush. They also knew (as in had >met) John Kerry (Massachusetts is a sufficiently small >state that running into a Sen

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-20 Thread John D. Giorgis
At 05:21 PM 1/20/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote: >Hi Nick. I think that the common complaint is that he >is nothing but ambition. That's the phrase I've >heard. There are a bunch of stories about that. Kerry >started signing his name "JFK" when he was 19 or 20 to >make himself seem more Presid

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-20 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Nick Arnett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What was it about Kerry? > > I'm often seized with a desire to vote Green. > > Nick Hi Nick. I think that the common complaint is that he is nothing but ambition. That's the phrase I've heard. There are a bunch of stories about that. He started si

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-20 Thread Nick Arnett
Gautam Mukunda wrote: My own sense of Kerry comes from five years in Boston. I kept running into liberal Democrats who hated, hated, _hated_ George Bush. They also knew (as in had met) John Kerry (Massachusetts is a sufficiently small state that running into a Senator is a fairly common occurren

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-20 Thread Bryon Daly
From: Gautam Mukunda <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My own sense of Kerry comes from five years in Boston. I kept running into liberal Democrats who hated, hated, _hated_ George Bush. They also knew (as in had met) John Kerry (Massachusetts is a sufficiently small state that running into a Senator is a fai

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-20 Thread Gautam Mukunda
--- Bryon Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kerry will never be a Clinton-type charmer, but he's > really not > the Gore-type stiff that he's gotten painted as. > Unfortunately, > some of his campaign PR appearance stuff apparently > designed to > make him seem more "regular guy"-ish, has had almo

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-20 Thread Bryon Daly
From: Deborah Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I'd thought of him as rather lugubrious before, but I was pleasantly surprised by the way he carried himself on one of yesterday's Sunday-morning political show interviews -- he seemed animated and much more dynamic. I like Kerry, he was my early-on favori

Re: 2004 Elections

2004-01-19 Thread Deborah Harrell
Here's a piece about that 50/50 split thing: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4002315/ "...according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll: "...But while Bush retains the support of nearly six in 10 Americans, the public believes Democrats would do a better job on domestic issues, such as the econom

Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)

2004-01-19 Thread Deborah Harrell
I wrote: > I also think that it will be a close race; having > learned a bit about Kerry I think he'd be a good > bet... I'd thought of him as rather lugubrious before, but I was pleasantly surprised by the way he carried himself on one of yesterday's Sunday-morning political show interviews -- h

Re: 2004 Elections

2004-01-19 Thread Deborah Harrell
--- "John D. Giorgis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I haven't yet commented on the 2004 Elections here > on the Brin-L List. > First, while the old cliche goes that you should > never make the mistake of > re-fighting the last election I think that

2004 Elections

2004-01-18 Thread John D. Giorgis
I haven't yet commented on the 2004 Elections here on the Brin-L List. even though I really wish that I had gotten my predictions on the written record. For those of you who haven't been able to discuss the elections with me in-person, however, (basically everyone here) you might b