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- From: erics@infoserv.com (Eric S. Smith)
- Newsgroups: alt.fan.dan-quayle
- Subject: Re: What are the chances of a Quayle presidency?
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 07:40:36 PDT
- Organization: Reigning Cats and Dogs
- Message-ID: <D2150056.j1tbke@erics.infoserv.com>
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- sg@monsoon.com (Sunil Gupta) writes:
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- > jrs@netcom.com (John Switzer) writes:
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- > > Four years is a HUGE amount of time in American politics, and I still have
- > > to laugh at Walter Mondale's column in May, 1991 in which he pleaded for
- > > Democratic party to take the Presidential elections seriously and run a
- > > serious candidate. A lot happened between May, 1991 and November 1992,
- > > and even more is possible from now until November, 1996.
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- > Many of us still chuckle when we remember the Republican claims
- > immediately following the Gulf War that the Democratic Party would
- > be forced out of presidential politics after the 1992 election
- > because they wouldn't be able to get over 25% of the vote.
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- Not only following the gulf war; just last spring, when Clinton was
- running third in the polls, the Republican party was actively looking
- into having the Democrats declared ineligible for federal matching funds
- after this election if they failed to get 25%.
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