if they live in a state that's not a swing state, wouldn't they be making some kind of statement voting for a candidate more compatible with their opinions that kerry?
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com> To: <lbo-talk at lbo-talk.org> Sent: Sunday, July 18, 2004 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [lbo-talk] Needed: A Head Count
: Carrol Cox wrote:
:
: >The main reason for campaigning for anybody but Bush/Kerry is that the
: >final tally will provide a partial head count of our (the left's)
: >_immediate_* constituency, and that seems to me rather more important
: >than who occupies the White House next January 20.
:
: So you're setting up the same trap as Yoshie - "our" numbers will be
: small, very small. Who wants to do that? Why spin yourself
: unfavorably in advance? Many people, including almost all my
: left-wing friends, will be voting for Kerry - and many of them are to
: the left of many Nader voters (i.e., Marxists rather than small-biz
: populists). But you've already set them up as not worth counting.
:
: Doug
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