fulani-wise

William S. Lear rael at zopyra.com
Sun Nov 28 06:23:16 PST 1999


On Sunday, November 28, 1999 at 02:18:29 (-0500) Doug Henwood writes:
>Michael Pollak wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 27 Nov 1999, Nathan Newman wrote:
>>
>> > The fact that Clinton got 49% of the vote rather than the 56-58% he
>> > would probably have received cut his coattails quite a bit.
>>
>>Anti-Clintonites usually wield a breakdown saying Willie got 43% of the
>>vote. Is that oft-repeated nonsense, or am I misremembering? The idea of
>>a minority president has much less bite if it was 49%.
>
>Clinton got 43% in '92, 49% in '96.

Is this a percentage of registered voters? Wasn't Ronald Reagan's percentage very low also?

What are the figures when you look at eligible voters? 20% maybe?

Bill



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