[lbo-talk] Needed: A Head Count

Shane Mage shmage at pipeline.com
Sun Jul 18 17:46:25 PDT 2004


Doug wrote:
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"I think John Lacny has pointed out here the importance of maximizing the popular vote margin, nationally, regardless of the electoral college arithmetic."

Well he would, wouldn't he? The Dumbocrats want a huge mandate precisely because they expect to carry out anti-workingclass policies, and the bigger their "mandate" the weaker any possible left dissent--at least for a while. By doing as much dirty work as they can to keep Nader or Cobb off as many ballots as possible they *diminish* the anti-Bushit mandate by increasing the number of abstentions, increase the Dumbocrat/Republicon presidential-vote ratio, and maybe even reinforce their Congressional Republicon alibi. So its time for the lesser-evilists to get honest and drop that disingenuous word "lesser" from their banner.

Shane Mage

"Thunderbolt steers all things...It consents and does not consent to be called Zeus."

Herakleitos of Ephesos



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