From: Wade T.Smith (wade_smith@harvard.edu)
Date: Wed 27 Nov 2002 - 23:40:59 GMT
On Wednesday, November 27, 2002, at 06:26 , Scott Chase wrote:
> With help from Nader, I assume.
Nope. Gore lost it all by himself. Pushing Ralph in front of that is a
piss-poor excuse, not that people won't make it.
And the trend to losing continued into the last election, where, again,
it wasn't that the republicans won, but the democrats just didn't really
show up.
The exception, as always, was here in Massachusetts, where there are
hardly _any_ republicans _to_ show up, and the majority of the
candidates elected actually run _unopposed_. (The reason I am registered
republican in this state is not because of some itching political
allegiance, but because I like fairness and equilibrium in all things,
because I come from a strong two-party state, and was shocked at the
state of compliance and apathy here. Then again, as Will Rogers would
sort of say, 'it's easy to belong to no organized party- register as a
Democrat'. I side with the underdog party here, not with any ideology
represented, if there really is one. And, registering within one party
in no way demands that I vote for the candidates of that party. In fact,
I have only voted for the person who actually won two times. Oh well....)
- Wade
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