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34171 President Gore -- rank: 1000

Carl Remick wrote: >A worthy enterprise indeed and one that requires little heavy >lifting. Whoever wins, it will be the most Pyrrhic victory since, >er, Pyrrhus. President-elect Whoever is going to be fatally damaged >goods in terms of legitimacy. Prepare for a massive campaign, beginning as early as tonight, for a sense of national unity and purpose, of rallying behind the instiitutions of our great government which is a beacon unto the world, etc. etc. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 10 09:42:59 PST 2000

34172 election demographics -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >A celebrity candidate who gets a nearly free pass from the media What media have you been reading? His supporters were "enablers" for a pathological narcissist's crusade, the NYT editorialized. Eric Alterman opined that he didn't deserve a single vote - and that's the liberal media, for heaven's sake. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 10 08:24:04 PST 2000

34173 President Gore -- rank: 1000

Steve Perry wrote: >you really think so? i'd bet against it. doug, whence this institutional >interest in "closure," anyway? a sop to market anxiety? The ruling class doesn't want a legitimation crisis, domestically or internationally. Of course, things could slip beyond their control; crises do happen. But I'm guessing that a few worthies will twist Gore's arm, and he'll concede for the good of the country. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 10 08:56:26 PST 2000

34174 [SSJ] New Bush Scandals? - The Plot Thickens -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >[Just a leading edge scandal from one of the online webzines. We'll see if >it explodes in the next days -- NN] Bet the Dems don't pursue these scandals. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 10 08:52:26 PST 2000

34175 President Gore -- rank: 1000

Max Sawicky wrote: >I've been checking the news every 30 min since noon. >With the recount the gap gets smaller each time. Now >it's 225, with two or three counties to go. > >This is prior to any contesting the results. By midnight >the count is going to be in favor of Gore. You heard it >here first. After that it depends on the absentee >ballots. Hmm, well how do you feel this morning? Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 10 08:28:35 PST 2000

34176 lbo-talk-digest V1 #3611 -- rank: 1000

Barry Rene DeCicco wrote: >Eight screens of quotes. Can't anybody trim their >quotes around here? Yes. Please keep quoting to a minimum. It only takes a couple of mouse clicks to trim. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 10 08:49:30 PST 2000

34177 Voter Fraud, Warren Christopher etc. -- rank: 1000

Christopher Susi wrote: >Given the statistic I heard the past few days that 94% of blacks vote >democrat, I can be pretty safe in saying a significant number of those >rioters were democrats. I'm sure you can draw similar conclusions looking >at the demographics of the other groups who were tearing up the city because >a couple of over-active pituitary cases (most of whom wern't even from their >city) were able to stick a ball in a hoop. You can call me racist. I call >it ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 10 08:25:04 PST 2000

34178 President Gore -- rank: 1000

Chuck0 wrote: >If Gore is so in favor of >supporting the "rule of law," why doesn't he throw in the towel and >concede defeat? I'm guessing that after a consultation with the ruling class, Gore will fold, in the interests of legitimacy and closure. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 10 08:46:10 PST 2000

34179 astute commentary -- rank: 1000

Speaking of astute comments on the election: <http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/p/nm/20001108/wl/imdf37219.html>. Doug

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Date:	Fri Nov 10 08:37:11 PST 2000

34180 Chucking the electoral college -- rank: 1000

Michael Pollak wrote: > >On Thu, 9 Nov 2000, Brad DeLong wrote: > >> It would be the right thing to do. Which means that it is unlikely to >> happen... > >Now comrade, where's your faith in collective action gone? We need to >organize. Let the real national civics lesson begin. As Dan Lazare pointed out on my radio show last night, since the EC magnifies the vote of smaller states, it would be unimaginable that a sufficient number would agree to a consitituional ...

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Date:	Fri Nov 10 08:34:04 PST 2000

34181 Summary of Nader analysis -- rank: 1000

jan carowan wrote: >I am free to say rude things about this fine writer because she is >not a paid subscriber of a publication with which I am associated. Which is? >Behind my fighting words there was reasoning which you are free to >engage. After listening to Ms Goodman's self proclaimed "critical" >interview of Mr Clinton and now reading your "counter" to my >criticism of Ms Ehrenreich, it seems clear to me that the >poststructuralist critique of reason ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 9 16:16:52 PST 2000

34182 Fwd: (50 Years) Important -- World Bank study: WB/IMF programs hurt poor -- rank: 1000

From: Soren <Soren at afgj.org> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 18:14:46 -0500 IMF, World Bank Reforms Leave Poor Behind, Bank Economist Finds By Mark Drajem Washington, Nov. 7 (Bloomberg) -- The poor in developing countries are often better off when their governments ignore the policy advice of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank, according to a study by a World Bank economist. That conclusion by William Easterly, who in the past has co- written papers with IMF Deputy Managing Director S ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 9 15:55:21 PST 2000

34183 Summary of Nader analysis -- rank: 1000

jan carowan wrote: >She has done great harm, and should never again be allowed top >billing in a leftist publication. Her leftism is truly infantile of >the drama queen sort. Them's fightin' words, comrade. I'm a big fan of Barbara Ehrenreich. I think *you're* being the drama queen here, by saying rude things about a fine writer and by saying hyperbolic things about the damage of a W presidency. Perhaps you should take a stress pill and relax.... Doug

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Date:	Thu Nov 9 15:49:51 PST 2000

34184 Summary of Nader analysis -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >So here you have it. The more it seems that dissidence matters, the >more savagely it is attacked. This is the moral equivalent of the >way the cops are letting loose on the demonstrators at recent WTO >meetings. Shuddup and gedbackinline, or its rubber bullets and all >night in jail for you, Ralph! You were fine when you were a >consumerist pain in the ass, but now you are a threat--you also a >failure and irrelevant, but the main pooint is that you ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 9 15:42:28 PST 2000

34185 Summary of Nader analysis -- rank: 1000

jan carowan wrote: >Why isn't anyone asking for the head of Ms. Barbara Ehrenreich, the >NYT editorialist in favor of Mr. Nader? > >She uses her leftist authority bestowed on her by the several >leftist publications which have featured her writings to divert in >practical terms the vote to Mr Bush? > >She has implicated every journal which has used her and which she >has used for her jejune leftism in the victory of Mr Bush, whose >irrationalism, coupled with a plia ...

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Date:	Thu Nov 9 15:40:31 PST 2000