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3001 [lbo-talk] Excellent analysis of Time Poll -- rank: 235

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2004/9/4/03450/25839 My thoughts on the Time Poll by mattb25 http://www.dailykos.com/user/mattb25 This is going to be a somewhat stream of consciousness analysis; not so much of the data in the poll, but of its circumstances. The bottom line ...

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Author:	ira glazer
Date:	Sat Sep 4 07:48:12 PDT 2004

3002 [lbo-talk] Et tu, Steve Diamond? -- rank: 235

... and > left > > 'authoritarians.'  At the same time, he is > pro-Nader. > > > > It's one thing to boink Obama for being too ... you find. It would not suprise me at all if Nader and fellow travelers (including many lefits and anarchists) were on ...

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Author:	Wojtek Sokolowski
Date:	Thu Aug 28 12:29:05 PDT 2008

3003 [lbo-talk] Bartels on Frank, etc. -- rank: 235

... 43% Dole 42% Perot 10% 2000: Gore 42% Bush 53% Nader 3% 2004: Kerry 44% Bush 55% White Male Voters

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Author:	Michael Hoover
Date:	Sun Mar 5 15:58:47 PST 2006

3004 Lesser-evilism and third parties -- rank: 235

> > Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2000 15:56:11 -0400 > From: Brett Knowlton <brettk at unica-usa.com> > Subject: Lesser-evilism and third parties > > > The problem is the winner take all system itself. If we had proportional > representation, this dilemma would melt away, and progressives wouldn't > have to worry about ...

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Author:	John Halle
Date:	Mon Aug 28 15:33:42 PDT 2000

3005 [lbo-talk] rallying behind W -- rank: 235

Gallup Tuesday Briefing - March 30, 2004 [...] Bush Approval How did all of these events affect Bush's image in the eyes of Americans? Despite what many would have thought would be a bad week for the Bush administration, the weekend CNN/USA Today/Gallup poll indicates that Bush appears to have ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Mar 30 16:48:08 PST 2004

3006 [lbo-talk] women turn against abortion rights -- rank: 235

... for admitting that one was a fool > to vote for Nader? Don't knock yourself out. The tiny smattering of us who voted for Nader have nothing to apologize for. The vast numbers of Dumbocrats ...

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Author:	dredmond at efn.org
Date:	Wed Jul 2 21:10:29 PDT 2003

3007 Cockburn: The Coup -- rank: 235

The Coup Alexander Cockburn Dec. 19, 2000 Can you imagine if it was the other way round, and it was Bush who'd won the popular vote but lost the Electoral College after a U.S. Supreme Court dominated by Democrat appointees had voted 5-4 to stop counting votes likely ...

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Author:	Chris Kromm
Date:	Wed Dec 20 06:17:52 PST 2000

3008 [lbo-talk] reflections on the current crisis -- rank: 235

... art of state-led > bailouts" -- I was reminded of Ralph Nader's recollection of paternal > wisdom recently in Counterpunch: "My father ... socialism will always be used to save > it.'" Sagacious guy, Nader père. Or as Gore Vidal put it, "what they want ...

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Author:	joanna
Date:	Tue Aug 21 17:04:29 PDT 2007

3009 [lbo-talk] Gawker on Hitch -- rank: 235

... well-marshalled argument): >AMY GOODMAN: Many people say that Ralph Nader is at the high >percentage point he is in the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Tue Aug 10 17:20:19 PDT 2004

3010 [lbo-talk] Dumping Ubu/Dickhead -- rank: 235

Michael Perelman asks: "I also have trouble figuring out the widely different polling results. First of all, most people's preferences are reportedly set in stone. Are the swing voters so volitile? Are the pollsters asking different questions? Or should we just ignore the horse race?..." All the polls share a ...

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Author:	Shane Mage
Date:	Sat Jul 24 20:27:42 PDT 2004

3011 Populism -- rank: 235

... often serves as explanation in lieu of systemic/structural >>analysis). > >Nader & lots of other left populists like to talk about corporate ... without >having much to say about the destructiveness of competition. Nader and the other left populists represent a form of petty ...

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Author:	James Farmelant
Date:	Sun Nov 14 10:58:17 PST 1999

3012 > Scaife 'n' Snitch (and the Hitch) -- rank: 235

Yoshie, I think what Nader says here about the causes of international problems and proposes ... there is nothing to go on here. It seems that Nader just didn't think about this very much. > One expects ...

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Author:	Rakesh Narpat Bhandari
Date:	Tue Apr 17 21:47:46 PDT 2001

3013 Walden Bello on Naomi Klein -- rank: 235

************************************************* NO LOGO: A BRILLIANT BUT FLAWED PORTRAIT OF CONTEMPORARY CAPITALISM A review of No Logo, by Naomi Klein, HarperCollins/Flamingo, London, 2000. 490 pp by Walden Bello When the young Canadian woman modestly handed me her book, with the quiet dedication "to Walden, with respect and solidarity," little did I ...

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Author:	Ian Murray
Date:	Mon Apr 23 19:27:11 PDT 2001

3014 [lbo-talk] From Matt Gonzalez to Ross Mirkarimi? -- rank: 235

>[lbo-talk] Green dropouts, alex lantsberg wideye at earthlink.net, >Tue Mar 30 22:00:33 PST 2004 <snip> >from an SF perspective its probably for the best. there's a whole >band of folks who are willing to step in be willing to both agitate >and legislate. they may ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Wed Mar 31 02:24:19 PST 2004

3015 Bloomberg's sweat-shirts -- rank: 235

Daily News (New York) - August 4, 2001 Mike's Sweatshop Shirts Human rights group rags his El Salvador-made togs By JOEL SIEGEL Daily News Senior Political Correspondent Michael Bloomberg has a Kathie Lee Gifford problem. Nonunion workers toiling for 60 cents an hour in Salvadoran sweatshops made the "Mike for ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Sun Aug 5 07:32:23 PDT 2001