Nathan and Florida

[Carl Remick]

>From: Doug Henwood <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
>I'd love to see a serious extended investigation of vote
>fraud around the U.S., not to mention serious scrutiny of the
>intentional anti-democratic structures of U.S. electoral practice
>(from technical stuff like ballot access through the systemic stuff
>like divided government and the Senate). I suspect that sometime in
>the next few days, after Gore folds, all the critiques of our
>pseduo-democracy will disappear, except maybe for some maligned
>Greens and other assorted malcontents, the very people now derided as
>spoilers.
>
>Doug

Yes, the establishment wants to get the lid back on this Pandora's box 
pronto.  I love the toe-tapping impatience of R. W. Apple's "News Analysis: 
Experts Contend a Quick Resolution Benefits Nation and Candidates" in 
today's NY Times.  The lead:  "Another week and no more. By next weekend, a 
group of scholars and senior politicians interviewed this weekend agreed, 
the presidential race of 2000 must be resolved, without recourse to the 
courts. With remarkable unanimity [lol!], they said that would be in the 
nation's best interests and, in the last analysis, those of the candidates, 
Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush of Texas."

I feel a liberal consensus developing whose centripetal force could out suck 
the gravitational pull of a black hole.  Believe me, in short order no light 
will be able to escape the all-consuming draw of the proclaimed urgent need 
to Put This All Behind Us.

Carl
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