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4531 [lbo-talk] Keeping perspective -- rank: 149

... Democratic candidate, Al Smith. Norman Thomas, that era s Ralph Nader, won less than 1%. Things never looked better for conservative ...

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Author:	Marvin Gandall
Date:	Wed Nov 3 11:11:38 PST 2004

4532 [lbo-talk] Not a Referendum on Bush, Notwithstanding the ABB Hype -- rank: 149

... are a minority of the US >population And what are Nader voters, who rang up a seriously impressive 0.3% of ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 3 10:17:21 PST 2004

4533 [lbo-talk] Not a Referendum on Bush, Notwithstanding the ABB Hype -- rank: 149

[Chomsky offers some survey evidence. --CGE] ...Last month a Gallup poll asked Americans why they're voting for either Bush or Kerry. From a multiple-choice list, a mere 6 percent of Bush voters and 13 percent of Kerry voters picked the candidates' "agendas/ideas/ platforms/goals." That's how ...

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Author:	C. G. Estabrook
Date:	Wed Nov 3 07:18:27 PST 2004

4534 [lbo-talk] voter turn out -- rank: 149

... 7 million to the polls to the Dems 2.5. Nader's loss is almost equal to the Dems gain ?? Gary ...

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Author:	Gary?
Date:	Wed Nov 3 06:21:59 PST 2004

4535 [lbo-talk] more tweaking -- rank: 149

... that moves. What, you think if Nathan had stumped for Nader/Camejo that they'd be the winners now? Face the ...

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Author:	Doug Henwood
Date:	Wed Nov 3 05:45:21 PST 2004

4536 [lbo-talk] Hey ABB'ers, start spinning this -- rank: 149

... you what to say. With the Democrats vicious attacks on Nader, Matt Gonzalez and so forth, all I can say for ...

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Author:	Lance Murdoch
Date:	Tue Nov 2 22:32:42 PST 2004

4537 [lbo-talk] more tweaking -- rank: 149

... m happy that I voted my conscience and wrote in Nader here in California, on the flip side of the ballot ...

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Author:	Albert Sonntag
Date:	Tue Nov 2 22:20:48 PST 2004

4538 [lbo-talk] i'm moving! -- rank: 149

Luke Weiger wrote: > According to Josh Marshall, the Repubs were trying to shut down polling > sites in the courts. I've felt sick to my stomach for the last three hours. > I can not fucking believe that the exit polls would be off _again_. > > -- Luke Let us pause and consider: Both ...

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Author:	randy geurts
Date:	Tue Nov 2 22:07:36 PST 2004

4539 [lbo-talk] Speculators Dumping Bush -- rank: 149

... I hope for an END TO LEFTIST WHINING. > >"Typed in" Nader, natch. At noon there was actually a small line in ...

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Author:	snit snat
Date:	Tue Nov 2 17:28:36 PST 2004

4540 [lbo-talk] Speculators Dumping Bush -- rank: 149

... I hope for an END TO LEFTIST WHINING. "Typed in" Nader, natch. At noon there was actually a small line in ...

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Author:	Brad Mayer
Date:	Tue Nov 2 17:14:25 PST 2004

4541 [lbo-talk] Give In or Move In (Stupid Elections, Leftist Cowards) -- rank: 149

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com, Tue Nov 2 07:02:43 PST 2004: >Yoshie Furuhashi wrote: > >>Structural constraints surely exist, but there is also the shining >>example of Venezuela. The Hugo Chávez government and its >>supporters tried a kind of left program, confronted a series of >>backlashes (from a capital ...

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Author:	Yoshie Furuhashi
Date:	Tue Nov 2 15:25:34 PST 2004

4542 [lbo-talk] Stupid Elections, Leftist Cowards -- rank: 149

Here's at least my rationale, Shane. Bush will stay the present course. Kerry may do something like call an international peace conference embracing the whole ME. I say _may_, and I do so without illusions about the likely crummy basis for that conference, but it's at least imaginable from ...

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Author:	Michael Dawson
Date:	Tue Nov 2 13:23:46 PST 2004

4543 [lbo-talk] Re: warriors on poverty, very part-time -- rank: 149

"... the third-party thing is primarily about middle-class people satisfying their own desires, rather than putting their resources at the service of the people who are the most down-trodden by the system." how does that differ, in essence, from the every-four-years concern for poverty on the ...

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Author:	frank scott
Date:	Tue Nov 2 11:43:15 PST 2004

4544 [lbo-talk] Tariq Ali Endorses Kerry . . . fortheBattlegroundStates -- rank: 149

... world is very different, indeed poles apart from, that of Nader, Camejo, Cobb, and other Greenies. But unless you can understand ...

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Author:	Charles Brown
Date:	Tue Nov 2 11:40:07 PST 2004

4545 [lbo-talk] Tariq Ali Endorses Kerry . . . fortheBattlegroundStates -- rank: 149

... world is very different, indeed poles apart from, that of Nader, Camejo, Cobb, and other Greenies. But unless you can understand ...

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Author:	Eubulides
Date:	Tue Nov 2 10:01:26 PST 2004