>>Doug Henwood wrote:
>>
>>>Lance Murdoch wrote:
>>>
>>>>These DLC "new" Democrats are perfectly happy
>>>>with half of Americans, mostly poor and working class Americans, being
>>>>disengaged from politics.
>>>
>>>But the DLC guy, Lieberman, is unlikely to get the nomination, and
>>>they're beside themselves over Dean's alleged (and phantasmic)
>>>McGovernish liberalism.
>>>
>>>And I'm not a DLC guy, or even a Democrat, and I want Nader to go
>>>jump in a lake, with heavy rocks in his pockets.
>>
>>Well, look at it this way. I think we all agree that Nader's impact
>>on the 2000 election was pretty marginal, and the Democrats are
>>making far too much about it to cover up for their own failures. If
>>that's the case, then maybe we shouldn't worry very much about
>>Nader's impact on the coming election.
>>
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>???
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>There's a 1% or so chance that Nader's candidacy will swing the
>election to the Republicans. Why isn't this something to worry about?
Just to make it clear, I didn't write the "Well, look at it this way..." part. I wrote the part that urged Ralph to perform a Virginia Woolf-style coda.
Doug