Bush pulls ahead against "big government"

[Chris Burford]

At 10:06 15/10/00 -0700, BD wrote:
>Chris Burford wrote:
>: What do radical leftists in the USA say about Bush's advantage in the
>: election polls? Many are critical of the "Third Way" but is it not 
>needed now?
>
>Actually, I'd say the current situation is the fault of "Third Way" democrats.

I am interested in your comments and those of others. In the UK Labour BTW 
has just bounced back in the opinion polls as 7% ahead of the 
Conservatives. The problem next year will be motivating them all to get to 
the polls.

An article on the the US election by the same Guardian team on Tuesday, put 
the case against big business. My sense is that even with attempts at 
consensus new politics, at some stage they have to have an enemy to fight. 
Presumably Gore cannot fight it too explicitly for fear of losing what big 
money the Democrats get:

Bush            Gore    Contributions in million $ from ...

39.7            17.0    Finance, insurance and real estate

  8.1            11.9    Lawyers
12.7             2.3    Oil, other natural resources, energy

  7.7             3.4    Pharmaceuticals, other health sector

  4.3             5.6    Computer industry

  7.8             1.5    Agribusiness

  5.7             3.5    Hollywood and TV

  7.1             1.9    Transport

  6.1             2.4    Construction

  0.2             5.8    Trade Unions
78.2            41.1    Other

177.6           96.4    TOTAL