[lbo-talk] Needed: A Head Count

R rhisiart at charter.net
Sun Jul 18 14:28:43 PDT 2004


my question, doug, is "what are your left wing friends hoping to accomplish with their votes?" do they live in swing states? if not, their votes likely don't matter.

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?

R

----- 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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