RR>The same 43% who put Clinton in before will vote for him again.
 DA> I don't believe that.  I know plenty of democrats and
 DA> independents who regret voting for Clinton.
 DA> IN MY OPINION, Clinton doesn't stand a snowball's chance in hades
 DA> of getting elected.  The only way the democrats will retain the
 DA> whitehouse is if someone other than Clinton runs on the
 DA> democratic ticket, or if a national crisis is manufactured and
 DA> used as an excuse for postponing or suspending the elections.
 
I wish that was true but I run into scads of people all the time who yammer 
about how evil Dole/Gingrich/Religious Right/Republicans/NRA/etc. are out to 
"get" everybody and how they're getting behind Clinton because he "knows what 
it's like" for the little people. (Sure, he got a briefing on it.)
 
Add to that hysteria the barrage of ads the AFL/CIO have been running all 
year slamming the republicans and praising Clinton, the constant 
one-sidedness of the media, people who always vote on party/union/freebie 
lines and even Dole/Kemp, with party backing and money, are at a severe 
disadvantage. The Dems have been playing the "big lie" card very 
uccessfully.
 
We've got a Slick-50 administration here. It's the crookedest, most 
untrustworthy one ever, but the great majority doesn't care and will argue 
with you when you point it out. Even if you argue them into admitting it 
they'll just say the other side is worse.
 
We're the other side. Evil, gun-loving, terrorists, marching to the beat of 
the NRA/militia paranoids/talk radio. 
 
We're the new boogie man of the 90's. The major media will dog-pile anyone 
who aligns with us. And we're arguing here about how many ways we can split 
what little power we might have had.
 
As for sending "a message", the only message that means anything in this 
situation is to make anyone who infringes our rights a one-termer. That will 
say far more than voting for someone who has no real chance of winning and 
thus allowing the infringer to toast his success.
 
--- Maximus 2.01wb
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