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- From: jsteiner@anwsun.phya.utoledo.edu (jason 'Think!' steiner)
- Date: 4 Jan 93 14:07:50 EST
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- mitcheec@ctrvx1.vanderbilt.edu (Elliott Mitchell) writes:
- > tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney) writes...
- > >
- > >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.
-
- i wouldn't be surprised. in the internet presidential poll the Libertarian
- candidate, Andre Marrou came in second, with half as many votes as
- Clinton, and quite a few more than Perot or Bush. for some reason or
- other (& i have a paper on this somewhere...) people who use computers
- have a much greater tendancy toward libertarianism than most.
-
- jason
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- "Why was I cursed with a woman like you? You're my misery! A knife in my
- heart! Come on, we can discuss this later. Let's just get married."
- - Adam, from the best episode of Northern Exposure
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