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21301 [lbo-talk] Re: warriors on poverty, very part-time -- rank: 1000

frank scott wrote: >how does that differ, in essence, from the every-four-years concern for >poverty on the part of middle class people of the, um, left, who are >hardly putting their-our resources at the service of the most >down-trodden, whether every day, or even simply on election day ? is >voting for a democrat every four years some form of revolutionary >social work? Who does that? I know lots of people who do serious political work all the time, whether it's writing o ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 12:12:59 PST 2004

21302 [lbo-talk] exit poll rumors -- rank: 1000

A friend writes, citing a friend at one of the networks... >Very early exit poll info points to a happy result, if current trends >hold.

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 12:09:05 PST 2004

21303 [lbo-talk] Re: Stupid Elections, Leftist Cowards -- rank: 1000

Turbulo at aol.com wrote: >Lula lacked such strategy not because he was stupid, but because he >was committed in advance to working within the >electoral/parliamentary framework. This means, in effect, that he >had already decided not to do anything to displease the US or its >lending agencies. So it was a matter of intention and will for you. Do you have any idea what it would mean for a country with large foreign financing requirements and deeply involved in foreign trade to dis ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 11:58:30 PST 2004

21304 [lbo-talk] Stupid Elections, Leftist Cowards -- rank: 1000

uvj at vsnl.com wrote: >Mailing lists create the impression that the US Left seems to neglect >domestic issues by focusing excessively on foreign policy issues. This >would have made sense from a Maoist/Third Worldist perspective. It would >also make sense if the mass of Americans made political decisions on global >issues. Are foreign policy questions the really decisive ones in the US >politics? Most Americans don't care about foreign issues, much to the frequent frustratio ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 11:54:51 PST 2004

21305 [lbo-talk] a vision... -- rank: 1000

Michael Dawson wrote: >Any earthly basis, or is this a pure visitation from beyond? final polls + turnout indics + instinct

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 11:51:27 PST 2004

21306 [lbo-talk] a vision... -- rank: 1000

I just had a vision, my second in a week.... ...Kerry by 5 points.

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 11:26:48 PST 2004

21307 [lbo-talk] filmmaker killed in A'dam -- rank: 1000

Controversial Dutch film maker shot dead on Amsterdam street AMSTERDAM (AFP) - Dutch film maker Theo van Gogh, who recently made a controversial film about Islam, was shot and stabbed to death while cycling on an Amsterdam street by a man with Moroccan nationality, officials said. The 47-year-old film maker, who sometimes claimed he was a distant relative of the late 19th century artist Vincent van Gogh, caused uproar this summer among the Dutch Muslim community with his short film "Submiss ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 07:29:04 PST 2004

21308 [lbo-talk] final gallup -- rank: 1000

[via Debate] Gallup/USA Today/ CNN 11.1.04 1,573 likely voters, Friday through Sunday (10.31.04) +_ 3% Likely voters K49/B49 Registered voters K48/B46 Dozen battleground states K +5 Six competitive states, either could win 3% likely voters who are undecided, weight gives 90% to K Who can better handle situation in Iraq? B +11 week ago. Slipped to +4 now. Who can better handle the war on terrorism? B +22 a week ago. Slipped to +11 now. 53% dissatisfied with the way things are going in USA B job a ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 07:24:59 PST 2004

21309 [lbo-talk] Gallup: highest turnout since 68? -- rank: 1000

[tables formatted poorly - view at URL] <http://www.gallup.com/poll/content/?ci=13912> Turnout Could Be Highest Since 1968 Election Levels of interest in election unprecedented in recent history by Jeffrey M. Jones GALLUP NEWS SERVICE PRINCETON, NJ -- Generally speaking, high interest in an election is usually associated with higher levels of voter turnout. This year, Gallup has measured dramatically higher levels of interest than in any recent presidential election year. Additionally, a m ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 07:22:52 PST 2004

21310 [lbo-talk] KH4K -- rank: 1000

[most of the endorsements are morsels, but this one is particularly good - to quote Leonard Bernstein, "I dig absolutely."] <http://www.kerryhatersforkerry.com/> MY DINNER WITH KERRY! by KH4K on October 27, 2004 04:58PM (EDT) WALLY SHAWN: Well, I -- I think that, you know, it's an awful situation. I don't -- certainly things are not going to become -- I mean, Kerry will be like Clinton or maybe worse. He's -- people don't usually -- you know, they rarely surprise you in a good wa ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 07:16:59 PST 2004

21311 [lbo-talk] Re: Tariq Ali Reiterates -- rank: 1000

kjkhoo at softhome.net wrote: >Is it the case that the Dems have simply followed where the >Republicans have led? Kinda. The U.S. elite started moving seriously to the right in the mid-1970s, as profit rates fell, wildcat strikes rose, and bond returns were persistently negative. The Republican party shed its northeastern and midwestern moderate base for a hard-right southern and western base (and the southerners left the DP for the RP). I'm not sure foreigners, and even a few American lef ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 07:14:02 PST 2004

21312 [lbo-talk] Stupid Elections, Leftist Cowards -- rank: 1000

Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: >Structural constraints surely exist, but there is also the shining >example of Venezuela. The Hugo Chávez government and its supporters >tried a kind of left program, confronted a series of backlashes >(from a capital strike, a coup, lockouts, mass media propaganda, to >a recall initiative), and survived them all -- without resorting to >dictatorship, no less -- to continue the Bolivarian process. True, but Venezuela produces almost 3 million barrels a ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 07:02:43 PST 2004

21313 [lbo-talk] some post-US election recommendations............ -- rank: 1000

Eubulides quoted some excellent stuff from Max Sawicky: >To get its legs back, the anti-globalization movement has to do a few big >things: > >1. Change its name. Much of it already has, to a global justice movement. > The 'globalization' in question is really the sway of >corporations in world politics, which thwarts progressive >internationalism. I think Doug Henwood's treatment of this in After the >New Economy is the right tack. Thank you, Max. Have you changed your ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 06:41:30 PST 2004

21314 [lbo-talk] Re: Kerry Haters for Kerry :: Main Page -- rank: 1000

[thanks to Michael Pug] <http://www.kerryhatersforkerry.com/> KH4K GOTV ... MEETUPS TONIGHT! by KH4K on November 1, 2004 02:59PM (EST) Kerry Rallies His Base of Kerry Haters! Lukewarm, hostile supporters plan for big turnout Outpouring of ennui and fatalism. Election eve teeth-gritting, nose-holding, morale-fabricating events in D.C. and New York to steel staunch KH4Kers for the coming four years. FIND OTHER KH4Kers with print-out lapel tags! * Meet fellow Kerry supporters who are just as ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 06:29:05 PST 2004

21315 [lbo-talk] Tariq Ali Endorses Kerry . . . for theBattlegroundStates -- rank: 1000

T Fast wrote: >Now now be generous I am sure you would count yourself among the >left Doug even though you were not at the million worker march and >intend to vote for Kerry. I am, yes. But I think people like Carrol, Brad, and Yoshie think that the tasks are self-evident: "smash the DP, build an independent left." This is very very hard. There are massive organizational, legal, and ideological constraints on doing so. You can't just shout at people, "Vote for Nader!" ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 2 06:24:47 PST 2004