From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"Mark"  wrote in message
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> "Robert G Lewis"  wrote in message
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>> Sure its useful in faulting this operation. if you cannot find the faults
>> then you can't correct them.
>>
>> I suspect that a sizable minority have even less knowledge that we do of
>> what's going on.
>
> Suspect? I'm certain that a couple hundred million (probably the entire
> population less 1%) have less knowledge than we do. Frankly, that wasn't
> all that worrisome to me prior to 2000, when Gore tried to steal the
> election, but after that debacle it'd be nice if we could up the awareness
> quotient.

Gee those disenfranchised purged voters didn't matter at all did they ? 
And yes Florida did purge voters who should not have been purged. Why? I
don't know, but that did happen and it shouldn't have.

>
>> As to a mandate , no Bush doesn't have one. He did win a slight majority
>> but that doesn't equate to a mandate. It also doesn't mean we shouldn't
>> fault his policies we disagree with.
>
> Yes, we've tangled over what a "mandate" is before - my
actual point was
> merely that the usual arguments that Bush has done nothing right since he
> first learned to walk - were not persuasive in the election.
>

But that's not an argument that I think I would normally make .
Some do overstate the case and I usually correct them ( believe it or not
)


>> As far as the voting well I think a nice study of waiting times in
>> various districts would be quite educational....
>
> Perhaps it would be, and I'm all for curtailing the partisan nonsense that
> goes on, but I have strong doubts that the rhetoric that Kerry is starting
> to whine forth now (after he was initially a man and orated an eloquent
> concession speech at the outset - even as Edwards took the low road) is
> just so much blather.
>
> If, and it is a real big if, the minority areas of Ohio (or any other
> state) had less than optimum voting conditions in comparison to the state
> as a whole, then it needs to be fixed. Actually, the areas with regular
> folk, of minority status or not, probably deserve better equipment and in
> more volume - as much of the elite probably don't vote anyway for all
> their pomp and circumstance in advising us what to do.
>
>

See we CAN agree a little .

Bob

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