Salon has an article on "Dumb Chic" today at http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/02/dumb/index.html. More importantly, to give myself a hearty pat on the back, I would point to my astonishingly prescient LBO post of August 16:
Subject: RE: Laying Bets: W Will Win From: Carl Remick (carlremick at hotmail.com) Date: Wed Aug 16 2000 - 07:48:49 EDT
>So Gore's got October to make a difference. The only chance he's got is the
>Octoberness of Octobers - bed-wetting month for stockholders. If something
>happens, the electorate will stick to the devil it knows rather than blame
>it, I submit. And if something does happen, Dubya is gonna have to answer
>questions about current affairs and urgent strategies, which should be
>worth another few points to the Gore camp.
>
>Bush is so ridiculously unimpressive a performer on those rare occasions
>when substance enters the conversation that I simply cannot bring myself to
>believe he's gonna get there.... Cheers, Rob (Gore 4/6; Bush 5/4)
But if there isn't a market crisis or some other October Surprise, Bush will remain relatively more attractive to the voters, IMHO. Gore is hopelessly didactic, which is pure poison to Americans. Bush, of course, is anything but a smarty-pants; he radiates intellectual mediocrity, and US voters tend to find that quite engaging.
Carl
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