Advantage Bush?

[Michael Perelman]

It doesn't matter whether there's a recession or not.  There will be
serious problems and with such a divided Congress and the absence of a
mandate, I think he will look pretty bad.  The same goes for Gore.

On Tue, Nov 14, 2000 at 01:04:49PM -0500, Doug Henwood wrote:
> Michael Perelman wrote:
> 
> >Nathan, as a loyal Democrat the last thing you would want would be for
> >Gore to win.  Whoever wins will be discredited from the beginning.  The
> >best thing for your party would be to have Gore fall on his sword for "the
> >good of the country," then sit back and chuckle while Bush has to dig
> >himself out of a recession.
> 
> What if there's no recession? Or if it's so mild it hardly matters?
> 
> Doug

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929

Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail michael at ecst.csuchico.edu