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34216 "Registered Voters" -- rank: 1000

Carrol Cox wrote: >Marco Anglesio wrote: > >> >> Does one have to be a "Registered Voter" to in fact vote? > >Yes -- you do. And in Illinois you have to be registered at least 30 >days before >the election. No last minute (or last month) registrations. Chris Kromm, who's in NYC to raise money from foundations for the Institute for Southern Studies, told me this afternoon that in North Carolina you have to submit petitions to be recognized as a valid write ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 15:49:11 PST 2000

34217 tergiversation -- rank: 1000

Nancy Bauer/Dennis Perrin wrote: >The real action in the YAF took place in 1968-70, when the group split into >conservative and libertarian wings. At the YAF national convention in St. >Louis in '69, the libertarians shocked the conservatives by burning their >draft cards and shouting "Laissez Faire! Laissez Faire!" The conservatives >responded with "Lazy Fairies! Lazy Fairies!" Karl Hess, symbolic leader of >the lib-wing and former Goldwater speechwriter, c ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 15:35:40 PST 2000

34218 Gramsci says: vote for Gore! -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Haiti shows the opposite situation. Because of progressive pressure and a >whole set of compromised relations with the Clinton administration, a >socialist Aristide was restored to office. It's hardly a complete victory, >but I will take the results in Haiti over Nicaragua any day of the week. But Nicaragua was running a revolution, and Haiti is in an unhappy stasis. What's have Hatians gotten from this strategy? I guess the moral is, don't try a revolution and ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 15:31:27 PST 2000

34219 tergiversation -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Actually, to engage in a bit of pop psychoanalysis, I assume that with the >rise of Reagan in the GOP, being a YAFer lost whatever rebellious chic it >once had and you, being the contrarian you are, had no choice but to become >a leftwinger :) Timing, Nathan. I stopped being a rightwinger in 1972. The whole period of mad apostasy lasted from my senior year in H.S. until early in my sophomore year in college. I'd been elected Secretary of the Yale Political Union ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 11:48:51 PST 2000

34220 access -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >Your political history can sometimes sound like a bizarre mirror image of ol >David Horowitz. If only I had his funding! Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 10:45:11 PST 2000

34221 access -- rank: 1000

jf noonan wrote: >Try and find *one* person who voted for Nixon in '72! Just one! Not me. I voted for Schmitz, because Nixon wasn't conservative enough. Wage & price controls - stinking statist! Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 08:59:06 PST 2000

34222 access -- rank: 1000

LeoCasey at aol.com wrote: >Not exactly a specimen of dialectical thinking. There could be a whole host >of other reasons why people don't vote, starting with regulations that make >it difficult for them to register and vote in a timely way. There does happen >to be a rather substantial literature from the left on the subject, anchored >on the one said by Cloward and Piven, who believe that the non-vote would >vote on the left, and thus see the low voter turnout as one of the m ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 07:54:38 PST 2000

34223 election demographics -- rank: 1000

Marco Anglesio wrote: >IIRC, the unweighted polls usually favour the Democrats substantially, by >a wide margin, and so they underestiate how well the right will do. IOW, >you're entirely correct. Yup. Yesterday's NYTimes showed the presidential preferences of all adults, registered voters, and likely voters. With each filter, the Republican share rose. Doug

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 07:32:44 PST 2000

34224 The Stakes Of Electoral Politics -- rank: 1000

Back in '96, I interviewed R. Emmett "Bob" Tyrell, the guiding light of the right-wing American Spectator, on the topic of conservatives' views of Dole. I brought up the issue that scared liberals always like to summon: a Republican president would mean turning the White House over to bible thumpers and brownshirts. Tyrell laughed, and said that Republicans use that right-wing rhetoric to energize their base, and then ignore them once in office. I said, you mean the same way Dems talk ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 07:30:11 PST 2000

34225 election demographics -- rank: 1000

Nancy Bauer/Dennis Perrin wrote: >Whatever happened to Accuracy in Academia? <http://www.academia.org/>. New at CampusReport Online: * Gay Studies Profs Unite to Rewrite History in Chicago * Wisconsin Doctors Diversity in Application for Students * 'Functional Atheist' Directs Theology at Catholic Boston College * LSU Packing-Up Its 'Plantation Room' * How Cultural Revolution in the 1960s Changed America ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Conservati ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 07:16:34 PST 2000

34226 election demographics -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >Think for a moment about who doesn't vote. Think for a moment about >in whose interest it is that so many people abstain. Think about >whose interest it is to denigrate pleas for higher participation as >"elementary school civics." The lower your income, the less likely you are to vote. Either the abstainers are very happy with things as they are, and so leave the choice of our rulers to their betters, or they think the choices on offer suck, and it does ...

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Date:	Tue Nov 7 07:10:34 PST 2000

34227 Fwd: FW: Upcoming Martin Duberman Event -- rank: 1000

[In an appearance at The Nation early this year, Duberman was attacked by the esteemed Eric Alterman.] -----Original Message----- From: Solomon, Alisa [mailto:ASolomon at gc.cuny.edu] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 11:57 AM Subject: Upcoming Martin Duberman Event Please circulate widely*Please Circulate widely*Please Circulate Widely December 6 7:30 pm BOOKPARTY/FORUM Left Out:Gays/Lesbians and the Left Martin Duberman Martin Duberman will present his recently published Left Out: The Politics o ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 6 17:08:25 PST 2000

34228 election demographics -- rank: 1000

Brad DeLong wrote: >As you know, America's Fortune 500 CEOs want a president *far* to >the right of Al Gore--and substantially to the right of GWB. What's your evidence for this? My sense is that they like GWB's tax cuts. They don't like the right-wing social agenda - too divisive, and besides, advertising would be nowhere without titillating sex. They like affirmative action, even if for the wrong reasons. Right after the '94 sweep, Fortune - which, after all, counts the 500 - had a cover ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 6 17:06:23 PST 2000

34229 election demographics -- rank: 1000

John Thornton wrote: >Do you really believe half of all the citizens of this country are "clueless >bozos"? Reminds me of a story a German journalist once told me about his visit to the Berkeley political science department in the late 1980s. He was talking to them about changes in the USSR, and several esteemed professors at this esteemed university asked, "Is Gorbachev for real?" His English wasn't idiomatic enough to summon "clueless bozos" as an appropriat ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 6 16:52:32 PST 2000

34230 Building a snowball that doesn't melt -- rank: 1000

Nathan Newman wrote: >So win or lose tomorrow, all I can say is - can't we all just get along :) I'm for this, with only a few exceptions. I think, though, that the groups you mention as good guys - NAACP, NARAL, NOW, the Sierra Club - deserve some pretty severe scrutiny for their political role in binding "progressives" to a Democratic Party that too rarely passes up an opportunity to betray them. Sharp discourse is one thing - I'm all for it - but you have to look carefully at wha ...

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Date:	Mon Nov 6 15:49:36 PST 2000