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- From: eg1@ra.msstate.edu (Ernie Gammon)
- Subject: Re: Rush loses out to Madonna
- Message-ID: <eg1.721327153@Isis.MsState.Edu>
- Organization: Mississippi State University
- References: <1992Nov8.200616.346@umbc3.umbc.edu>
- Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 16:39:13 GMT
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- alex@red-dragon.umbc.edu (alex) writes:
-
-
- > _Sex_ has reached #1 on the Times Nonfiction Bestseller list, pushing
- >Rush's book to Number 2 after only 8 weeks. That means that, not only will
- >Madonna make a great deal more on here book (She has a $60million contract),
- >but more people are buying it, too. No wonder Rush hates her so much.
-
- > Only time will tell if Rush's book has the staying Power of Al Gore,
- >who's book is still #7 after 22 weeks on the list. Still, that begs the
- >real question:
-
- > Since Madonna is more popular then Rush, does that mean the Madonna
- >is more mainstream then Rush? Or, if Madonna is part of some radical fringe
- >(as Rush claimes), is Rushs audiance simply a less popular, more whacko,
- >fringe group?
-
- > 60% of the population may have doubts about Bill Clinton, but
- >more then that were sure that they didn't like Bush, and Bush was immensly
-
-
- Now, I've got a question here. How come, when that 60% voted against
- Clinton, its because they were 'unsure', but when you turn it around, its
- because they WERE 'sure that they didnt like Bush'???? Isnt that the same
- sort of stereotyping that you very liberals are accusing Rush of???
- Something doesnt fit here.....
-
-
- >more popular then the next right wing challenger, Pat Buchannan. If Rush
- >and his ilk get their way, the next GOP offering will be somewhere between
- >George and Pat, and they'll still be surprised when they lose, because
- >after all this, Rush and the Dittoheads still think that they are middle
- >America.
-
- > A little math shows that if the Christian Coalition represents
- >15-20% of registered voters, then they also represent about half of
- >the GOP (about 30% of register voters). If Clinton can avoid doing
- >anything completely stupid for 4 years, then he's likely looking at at
- >William Bennett or Dan Quayle as competition, and we're looking at
- >8-12 years of democratic presidents. (It would be interesting to see
- >Kemp run, but I can't see kemp kissing Pat Robertsons ass, somehow).
- >Yessir, it's a whole new ballgame.
-
- >--
- > Alex Crain::UMBC Academic Computing Services
- > "[PBS viewers are] affluent, highly educated, the movers and the shakers,
- > the socially conscious and the well informed. What about the rest of us?"
- > - Robert Dole
-