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- From: ceb@dbrus.Unify.Com (Caroline E. Bryan)
- Newsgroups: misc.headlines,ca.politics
- Subject: Re: Mr Clinton
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- Date: 12 Nov 92 19:14:40 GMT
- References: <1992Nov4.174420.9483@pbhya.PacBell.COM> <randall.721002617@woof>
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- In article <randall.721002617@woof> randall@informix.com (Randall Rhea) writes:
- >mspayer@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Mike Payer) writes:
- >
- >>When you combine the votes for Bush and Perot 57% of the American people
- >>voted against Bill Clinton.
-
- When you combine the votes appropriately, 61% of the American people voted
- against George Bush and 81% of the American people voted against Ross Perot.
- They and the minor party candidates, against whom even higher percentages of
- people voted, are clearly less entitled to be called the winner than Bill
- Clinton is.
-
- >2) [Clinton's] support was strong in all regions of the country
- >
- >>It would seem to me that Mr Clinton will have a problem in that he does
- >>not come to Washington with a mandate to govern. ( comments )
- >
- >A "mandate" is what you make it. Not getting a majority did not
- >bother Wilson, JFK, or Nixon.
-
- Clinton's strong support in all regions of the country, including the South,
- recently a strongly Republican block, and the West, also a strongly Republi-
- can block, gives him the mandate. A narrow squeek in the electoral college
- would be a sign of no mandate. Clinton did not win by a narrow margin in
- the electoral college, and Congress is aware of that.
-
-
- Carrie ceb@rechenau.unify.com x 6244 ----------------+
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