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- From: mitcheec@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (Elliott Mitchell)
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- Subject: Re: [misc.activism.progressive] Clinton Office Requests Comments
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- Date: 1 Jan 93 20:43:00 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan1.085628.14430@netcom.com>,
- tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney) writes...
- >
- >I ran in the primary against our incumbent (12 years) democratic
- >representative. I ran what I'm told was the first on-line campaign
- >using Internet, AOL, and Compuserve.
- >
- >2. re: conservative viewpoint would dominate
- > My experience says no. Well, sort of no. Well, it's like this...
- > I received gobs of email during my campaign. Of course, some of it
- > was quite thoughtful, and some was flaming (from rare to well done).
- > A vast amount of the flames were from people who fell into the rough
- > camp of: All taxes are theft; almost all government is wrong; etc.
- > I don't think I would classify those as 'conservative', but perhaps
- > the conservatives I've met just hadn't flamed that way in person.
-
- Those kinds of flames are almost identical to the kinds that I see on a
- regular basis, from people who describe themselves as 'conservative,'
- although I tend to agree with your analysis. Perhaps they are more
- libertarian than conservative.
-
- >
- >p.s.
- >No, I didn't win the primary
- this time. I got 11%, though.
-
- Congratulations on that, in an election there are winners and losers, but
- we all lose if nobody is willing to face up to the establishment.
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