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34186 Summary of Nader analysis -- rank: 1000

86% of self-identified Dems voted for Gore, 11% for Bush - and only 2% for Nader. 91% of self-i.d.'d Reps voted for Bush, and 8% for Gore. 34% of union members voted for Bush, and 62% for Gore. Gore couldn't hold onto his base. That's not Ralph's fault, though of course the Dems would like you to think so. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 9 15:35:24 PST 2000

34187 making the rounds.... -- rank: 1000

[god knows where this came from...] Hello again, Thought you'd like another update from the inside. I spent much of Wed. as the Palm Beach County Dem. Party observer in the recount room at the Palm Beach County Supervisor of Elections. Also present were lawyers and a staffer representing GWB, several lawyers representing Gore, representatives of the Reform Party, the Fla. Democratic and Republican Parties, the DNCC, US Rep. Clay Shaw and his Dem. challenger Elaine Bloom (this race is still con ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 9 13:22:58 PST 2000

34188 Amy & Bill -- rank: 1000

John Halle wrote: >On the question of the dramatic increase in black p.c. income-to what >extent is the huge increase in the rate of black imprisonment responsible? >Is the 30 cent an hour wage of a million odd black prisoners factored >into the rate, or are these folks removed from the statistical pool from >which the wonks derive their feel good numbers? The incarcerated aren't included. There are, of course, lots of black people who aren't in jail, and the fact that they're doi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 9 12:30:39 PST 2000

34189 Amy & Bill -- rank: 1000

So Amy Goodman got a call from the White House yesterday, and she was told she's never welcome there - would never get a press pass. Too rude, etc. Some democracy, eh? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 9 12:29:00 PST 2000

34190 exit polls -- rank: 1000

Forstater, Mathew wrote: > Interesting, if they aren't really different, different perceptions across >demog. groups needs explanation. Fantasy, mostly, compounded by habit. Voters generally have little or no idea what positions the candidates actually take. Serious, smart people seem to think, for example, that Hillary's some sort of social democrat. Look at the exit poll breakdown on abortion - about a quarter of Gore voters were pro-lifers, and about a third of Bush's were pro-choice. ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 9 12:18:43 PST 2000

34191 Fwd: 2000-11-09 Proclamation on National American Indian Heritage Month 2000 -- rank: 1000

["a special part of our Nation's history..."] THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Press Secretary ________________________________________________________________________ For Immediate Release November 9, 2000 NATIONAL AMERICAN INDIAN HERITAGE MONTH, 2000 - - - - - - - BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians are a special part of the tapestry of our Nation's history. As keepers o ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 9 11:36:15 PST 2000

34192 exit polls -- rank: 1000

On the question of how Nader voters would have voted in a 2-person race, and lots of other things besides, see the MSNBC presidential exit poll page, <http://www.msnbc.com/m/d2k/g/polls.asp?office=P&state=N1>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 9 10:43:08 PST 2000

34193 Grand Funk drummer p.o.'d -- rank: 1000

<http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/lc/20001109/en/grand_funk_drummer_says_florida_election_result_is_unbelievable_1.html> Grand Funk Drummer Says Florida Election Result Is Unbelievable (11/9/00, 7 a.m. ET) - No one can believe how Tuesday's (November 7) presidential election results turned out, least of all Florida resident and Grand Funk Railroad drummer Don Brewer. The man who played drums on the 1973 number one hit "We're An American Band" lives in the Jupiter area these days, and ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 9 10:41:33 PST 2000

34194 fun with goofballs -- rank: 1000

For a little post-election unwinding, see <http://www.colonize.com/warp/index.html>. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 9 10:39:59 PST 2000

34195 Russian poll -- rank: 1000

[With the election over, I have to turn elsewhere for my poll fix. From Johnson's RUssia List.] Trud November 9, 2000 [translation from RIA Novosti for personal use only] HOW RUSSIANS SEE THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION By Vitaly GOLOVACHEV The Russian Center for Studying Public Opinion (VTsIOM) has conducted a sociological poll to find out Russians' opinion about the 1917 October revolution. It is sometimes called a coup. The responses are cited as a percentage from the total number of those polled. Que ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 9 09:21:41 PST 2000

34196 world baffled by U.S. -- rank: 1000

World baffled by U.S. election cliffhanger Date/Time: Wed Nov 8 13:30:01 EST 2000 LONDON (Reuters) - World reaction to the bizarre course of the U.S. elections ranged from bemusement to contempt Wednesday, with one commentator calling the American electoral system "idiotic." Even with 99.9 percent of the votes counted from Tuesday's balloting, no clear winner had emerged between Democratic presidential candidate Al Gore and his Republican challenger George W. Bush. In turmoil unprecede ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 9 09:14:33 PST 2000

34197 voter turnout "barely budged" -- rank: 1000

Wall Street Journal - November 9, 2000 Voter Turnout Remains Low Despite Ad Barrage, Close Race By YOCHI J. DREAZEN Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL WASHINGTON -- Overall voter turnout for this week's election barely budged despite nearly $1 billion of campaign television advertisements and the closest presidential contest in decades, making small but well-organized groups of special-interest voters more powerful than ever. About 50.7% of the nation's 200 million eligible voters cast ba ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 9 09:05:11 PST 2000

34198 election demographics -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >A belief that the current extent of the social insurance state is >worth defending "Defending" a battered remnant of a pisspoor social insurance state is a losing political strategy. You win by going on the offensive, not making timorous defenses of the status quo. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 9 08:54:18 PST 2000

34199 income in the Clinton years -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >After delaying the recount for about four weeks, the election was certified >for Bush, since Gore was too wimpy to push the issue any further. Safire writes in today's NYT: >Nixon's most unselfish hour was when he refused to contest the >excruciatingly close results. Former President Herbert Hoover called >him to say that Joe Kennedy wanted to set up a meeting with his son, >the president-elect. After meeting with J.F.K., Nixon told us that >court chall ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 9 08:46:01 PST 2000

34200 Amy & Bill -- rank: 1000

The transcript of Amy Goodman's interview with Bill Clinton is at <http://www.democracynow.org/news/clinton.html>. Gotta say, the guy is a prick, but he's very good at this sort of thing. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 9 08:32:59 PST 2000