On election night, for whatever it is worth, the CNN analyst (Bruno?) claimed that Gore was doing worse than expected in normally Demo Cleveland area but better than expected in the normally Repug Cincinnati area. Don't know why though. The latter is the base of the Taft family, right? Barkley Rosser -----Original Message----- From: Tom Lehman <TLehman at lor.net> To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com> Date: Thursday, November 09, 2000 4:40 PM Subject: Re: Someday I too, can retire from work and do a book on being a WAITRESS.
>Max---That's the $15 million dollar question, which is the amount of money
>the Ohio Democrat party spent on the election. :o)
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>The Democrats can't seem to get it together outside of the cities with a
>significant minority population and the minority population is becoming
>increasingly fickle towards the Democrats. It's almost as if the
>Democrats are afraid to attempt to get out the vote in the, shall we say,
>european areas. So the vast majority of the area of the state and its
>population is being written off by the Democrats.
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>Some attribute this to the corporatist/corporate philosophy of the
>Democrats which requires legitimizing by seeking power bases. Rather than
>practicing real politics with real positive outcomes for real people.
>
>Tom
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>Max Sawicky wrote:
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>> Hey Tom, with all of those mfg plants, how did Ohio get so fucked up?
>> Do people vote GOP because they feel the Dems screwed them, so
>> they cut their nose to spite their face?
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>> max
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