[lbo-talk] Krugman: "The question then is why."

[C. G. Estabrook]

Obviously, we should have voted for the major-party candidate who promised to 
withdraw from Afghanistan.

--CGE

On 7/13/11 1:03 PM, Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Jul 13, 2011, at 1:37 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
>
>> Except for the little point that it was that left constituency that elected him.
>> He ran on a progressive platform.
> That was his base, but they would have voted for any Democrat - probably even Joe Lieberman. But the swing votes were all the independents who were just anti-Bush. His platform was rather vague, but did include a pledge to escalate the war in Afghanistan.
>
> Doug
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