Lonely on LBO

[James Farmelant]

On the face if it, I'd say that this is a very good thing
because it calls into question the legitimacy of the
existing political system in such a direct way.  If a
full-scale constitutional crisis breaks out as may well
happen (if for example the losing campaign decides
to challenge the Florida results in court), this will
not be something that will be easily swept under the rug
or explained away by the pols and media pundits.

Jim Farmelant

------Original Message------
From: "Max Sawicky" <sawicky at epinet.org>
To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
Sent: November 8, 2000 12:57:18 PM GMT
Subject: Re: Lonely on LBO

Putting aside the tilt to Bush and the absurdity of any
thought that Nader had any intention of causing this
particular, bizarre result, is that a bad thing or a good
thing? Aren't we better off without an electoral
college?

mbs


>
> Well, Nader and the Greens can take great pride in precipitating a
> constitutional crisis.  They didn't get the 5% but the impact could not
have
> been greater.
>
> -- Nathan Newman
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chuck Grimes" <cgrimes at tsoft.com>
> To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 08, 2000 4:45 AM
> Subject: Re: Lonely on LBO
>
>
>
> It's 1:23p on the west coast and the vote separation is down to less than
a
> thousand in Florida (224 vote lead for Bush). The network anchors are
> stunned,
> meanwhile the state officials in Florida are facing a manditory re-count.
>
> Man this is close.
>
> Breathless. Meanwhile the popular west coast votes are stacking
> up as a Gore popular lead of fifty thousand. So, we are set up with an
> electorial college going one way and the popular vote the other.
>
> Chuck Grimes
>
>
>