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- From: harelb@math.cornell.edu (Harel Barzilai)
- Subject: Re: POST-ELECTION *EDITORIAL*
- Message-ID: <1992Nov20.022938.2628@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.activism.d
- Originator: daemon@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
- Sender: news@mont.cs.missouri.edu
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- Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 02:29:38 GMT
- Approved: map@pencil.cs.missouri.edu
- Lines: 48
-
- Got these two "letters" in response to the "Post-Election
- Editorial" posted a week ago (these were the only items received in
- response to my invitation to send replies over the next few days).
-
- --Harel Barzilai
- Co-founder, Co-moderator, misc.activism.progressive (MAP)
-
- -->
- --> Date: Thu, 12 Nov 92 17:23:06 -0800
- --> From: pierce@CS.UCLA.EDU (Brad Pierce)<
- --> To: harelb@math.cornell.edu
- --> Subject: Re: POST-ELECTION *EDITORIAL*
- --> Newsgroups: misc.activism.progressive
- --> In-Reply-To: <1992Nov13.005250.24748@mont.cs.missouri.edu>
- --> Organization: UCLA, Computer Science Department
- --> Cc:
- -->
- --> ---
- -->
- --> Opinion: If every "progressive" who voted for Clinton/Gore had
- --> instead voted for a third-party candidate, Bush/Quayle
- --> would still have lost.
- -->
- --> ---
- -->
- -->
- --> @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@
- -->
- --> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 92 21:01 CST
- --> From: Kerry Miller <ASTINGSH@KSUVM.KSU.EDU>
- --> Subject: Re: POST-ELECTION *EDITORIAL*
- --> To: Harel Barzilai <harelb@math.cornell.edu>
- --> In-Reply-To: Your message of Thu 12 Nov 1992 20:04:55 EST
- -->
- --> you calculate Clinton got 23% of the vote if "eligible voters"
- --> were all taken into account. Given the anomalies of
- --> registration, why take even that number as anything reliably
- --> indicative of the number of people who *might* have voted? -
- -->
- --> which also helps explain the 20% who voted for Bush - as the
- --> pollsters have known for a long time, theres a real difference
- --> between likely voters and the rest -- and most likely are those
- --> who voted before, and most of *them* obviously had voted for GB.
-
- --> What would therefore be really interesting to know is, of New
- --> Voters, what were the percentages like?
- -->
- --> kerry miller astingsh@ksuvm.ksu.edu
-