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 exactly

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)

2004-01-21 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 Congressional

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 Massachusettans.

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 to a

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

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 almost the

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

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

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 signing

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

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 Senator

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 sufficiently small

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 Kerry

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 D. Giorgis wrote: At 12:11 PM 1/20/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda

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 in

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) (I never ran into my own Congressional representative from that time

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 seeking out

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 -- he