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34201 Fwd: Alex Cockburn, on the Elections -- rank: 1000

[don't know where this came from...] November 9, 2000 Nader and the Virtues of Gridlock Election 2000: The Best of All Possible Worlds by Alexander Cockburn So it all came out right in the end: gridlock on the Hill and Nader blamed for sabotaging Al Gore. First a word about gridlock. We like it. No bold initiatives, like privatizing Social Security or shoving through vouchers. No ultra-right-wingers making it onto the Supreme Court. Ah, you protest, but what about the bold plans that a Democrati ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Thu Nov 9 06:22:35 PST 2000

34202 income in the Clinton years -- rank: 1000

There was a question about income growth during the Clinton years. Here are the Census figures by quintile and the top 5% - real income growth from 1992 to 1999. all white black Hispanic poorest 14.9% 12.1% 26.5% 21.4% 2nd 13.2% 10.8% 34.9% 19.1% middle 12.4% 11.2% 26.8% 14.3% 4th 13.8% 13.0% 23.3% 14.6% top 25.2% 25.0% 28.1% 2 ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 8 15:21:50 PST 2000

34203 Fwd: Florida Ex-Offenders Barred from Vote Decisive in Election -- rank: 1000

From: Human Rights Watch <hrwatchnyc at igc.org> Subject: Florida Ex-Offenders Barred from Vote Decisive in Election Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2000 15:06:05 -0800 Florida Ex-Offenders Barred from Vote Decisive in Election 31% of State's African American Men Denied Vote (New York, November 8, 2000) The permanent disenfranchisement of over 400,000 ex-offenders in Florida is likely to have determined the outcome of the presidential election, two non-partisan research and advocacy groups said today. A ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 8 15:13:32 PST 2000

34204 The Stakes Of Electoral Politics -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >R. Emmett Tyrell is an expert you trust? On anything? He knows a thing or two about "movement conservatism." Otherwise, he's a bad Mencken imitator. >Clinton's upping the top-bracket tax rate was governing in the >interest of Wall Street and the Fortune 500? Profitability rose sharply during the Clinton years, and Wall Street has been sloshing with money. So even though the tax nibble is a bit deeper, their posttax fortunes are better than ever. For now. Do ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 8 13:43:34 PST 2000

34205 election demographics -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >You have to doubt it. You would have to move pretty far left in >order to pull in those 3% that are Nader voters. And in the process >you lose people in the center who think they don't like Democrats >who engage in "class war." Far left? Brad, you think of yourself as some kind of social democrat, no? Are the ideas of more favorable labor laws, campaign finance reform, a higher minimum wage, and national health insurance "pretty far left"? Are ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 8 13:35:40 PST 2000

34206 election demographics -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >That's not fair to Alan Blinder and Laura Tyson. Come to think of >it, it's not fair to Joe Stiglitz or Bob Reich either. They all left the admin, no? Stiggy ended up getting fired from the WB by your diss advisor (he was that, no?). Reich ended up writing a pretty anti-Gore op-ed. And Tyson was recently found shilling for debt reduction. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 8 13:40:22 PST 2000

34207 Eric the manly -- rank: 1000

So I hear that Eric Alterman says he wants to strangle Ralph Nader with his bare hands. Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 8 11:15:10 PST 2000

34208 Lonely on LBO -- rank: 1000

Kevin Quinn wrote: >Yes--how was I not seeing this? The point is that now, contrary to what >Nader says, people who would have to be in any successful left movement >have even more reason to ignore leftists. Now, in addition to being >probably Communists, they are the people whose sectarianism turned the >White House and the Court over to a nihilistic piece of crap. Who was so demonstrably worse than that pompous, pious, unprincipled piece of crap, of course. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 8 10:18:13 PST 2000

34209 more from Katha -- rank: 1000

Speaking of Katha...just read this quote from a 1996 Nation column by Katha (in the International Socialist Review, of all places; the bracketed words of scene-setting are the ISO author's): "[Had Reagan or Bush tried many of the policies that Clinton passed, liberal organizations would have mobilized millions to protest - as they did in the late 1980s, when a right-wing Supreme Court threatened to repeal Roe v. Wage. But with their friend in the White House, they stood by] waiting and hopi ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 8 10:16:20 PST 2000

34210 election demographics -- rank: 1000

Wojtek Sokolowski wrote: >But I as I said earlier, the Dem's shift to the right is not a result of >ideological blindness - but going where the votes are. So that's why Gore won so convincingly? Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 8 10:02:13 PST 2000

34211 Lonely on LBO -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Well, Nader and the Greens can take great pride in precipitating a >constitutional crisis. They didn't get the 5% but the impact could not have >been greater. First we abolish the electoral college, then the 2-party system! Off to go write "Reasons to be cheerful." Doug

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 8 09:46:15 PST 2000

34212 election demographics -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >And there is, and there is... Your boy couldn't carry his home state. Is that Ralph's fault? Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 8 09:43:18 PST 2000

34213 Cloward/Piven and Teixeira -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >Unlike you, I would not identify myself with either strategy en toto. I think >that the Cloward-Piven focus on poor folks is primarily based on a flawed >1960ish notion of 'the people'; witness all their work on poor peoples >movements. It is, at best, a very incomplete notion of a left social base. Leo, could you *please* set your mailer to plain text? Didn't I read a piece of yours somewhere recently - some DSA rag perhaps? - arguing that teachers' union ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 8 09:36:43 PST 2000

34214 access -- rank: 1000

Justin Schwartz wrote: >Nathan, that insult is too stupid and loathsome to let pass >unrefuted. You owe Doug an apology. I have just lost about 80% of my >respect for you. --jks Ah, I've heard worse. Nathan was just suffering pre-traumatic stress disorder at the possibility of Al Gore's humiliation. Couldn't even carry Tennessee. Wanker. Doug

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Date:	Wed Nov 8 09:33:50 PST 2000

34215 Clinton on DN - will Pacifica run it tomorrow AM? -- rank: 1000

From: "Lyn Gerry" <redlyn at loop.com> To: freepac at recordist.com Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 19:29:24 -0500 If this doesn't run tomorrow, we will know that Berry has pulled it, and she must be held accountable. Lyn ==================== Democracy Now! will run from 8-10 AM Eastern Wed Nov 8 NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NOVEMBER 7, 2000 CONTACT: Amy Goodman (212) 209 2812/2811 ON ELECTION DAY, PACIFICA RADIO'S DEMOCRACY NOW! AND WBAI ASK CLINTON THE HARD QUESTIONS President Clin ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Nov 7 16:44:07 PST 2000