RTP-area local music and culture

[grady <grady AT ibiblio.org>]

If you really took the time to listen to Kerry (and had the chance to do 
 so--he definitely wasn't cut out for the world of sound-bites), he had 
a lot of good things to say. I would've been pleased as punch to have 
him in the White House; he's a smart guy, and knows enough to listen to 
other, smarter people when they offer good advice. Probably *too* much 
to be able to win in Our Stupid Times, but enough to have made him a 
good President if he had.

On the other hand, I still do a double-take when I get emails from him 
that say stuff like this: "I wish I could just wrap you in my arms and 
embrace each and every one of you individually all across this nation. I 
thank you from the bottom of my heart." Who the fuck is he kidding?

I wouldn't characterize myself as "excited" about Kerry, but then I 
wasn't excited about Clinton, either. I was a Tsongas man. Clinton was a 
smarmy leering panderer. I love watching him speak, though. Damn good 
public speaker. But then one of the best political speeches I ever heard 
was given by Al Sharpton, and I'm damn glad *he's* not President.

Ross

Obama 2008!

DJ Sad wrote:

> True...on the other hand Bush won the popular vote this time.  Not
> but much but he won by enough that I doubt there would be a recount
> (if that was something that mattered)  And Nader did a lot less
> damage.
>
> I feel less like Bush won this election than he didn't lose it. How
> many pro-Kerry folks were excited to have Kerry in the White House
> versus excited to get Bush out?
>
> The only time I got excited this election was when I heard former
> President Clinton last night on 102 Jamz pleading with folks to come
> out and vote.  I wanted to vote for him again.
>
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> ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From:
> James Hepler <jameshepler AT yahoo.com> Reply-To: RTP-area local music
> and culture <ch-scene AT lists.ibiblio.org> Date:  Wed, 3 Nov 2004
> 12:43:46 -0800 (PST)
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> > I did a little number crunching because if Kerry were to win NM and
> > IA then everything would have been exactly the same as 2000 except
> > Kerry would have taken NH instead of Bush.  Given that Bush won in
> > 2000 with *271* electoral college votes, had electoral college 
> > votes not been redistributed since the 2000 election, Kerry would
> > have won.
> >
> > States that went red in both 2000 and 2004 GAINED *7* electoral
> > college votes since 2000.  States that went blue in both lost 7.
> > NM and IA stayed the same, as did NH.
> >
> > So the red/blue map actually shows that Kerry did better than Gore
> > did.  The thing is, the states that go blue didn't count for as
> > much.  And it made the difference in this election.
> >
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