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One thing I think is important to keep in mind in this
whole debate is the way the electoral college works.
Many states are not true contests this year. In
California Gore has a two-digit lead and neither
candidate is campaiging here (has anyone in CA seen a
single campaign ad for Bush or Gore? Compare to how
many you've seen for Prop 38 and Prop 39). The same is
true, I believe, in New York, and in Texas Bush has a
commanding lead. It doesn't matter if a candidtate
wins a state by 5% or 20%, he will get all the
electoral votes.
So my vote for Gore in California is not nearly as
important as a vote for Gore in say, Florida,
Pennsylvania, or Wisconsin. I'm sympathetic to the
argument that a vote for Nader helps Bush in the
abstract, but I don't buy it for my state. Since my
vote has already been depleted of value in California,
I feel that a vote for Nader makes even more sense --
I have the advantage of being able to show my distaste
for the two-party system and not make it any more
likely that Bush will win the White House. I think
most of the people on this list are in CA or NY, and I
think it's important that we make our vote mean as
much in the context the electoral college allows. For
my state, that means voting for Nader.
And as was pointed out on the list earlier Jim, it is
PROCTER, not PROCTOR. While the previous poster was a
little virulent in her critique, it is important to
get details like this right so that we don't cede any
ground to the opposition.
rm schedlinski
--- WestLAMan@aol.com wrote:
> bravo, rob nash - I could not agree more -
>
> PS to the list - please support the (many) strikes
> and labor struggles taking
> place, particularly in Los Angeles, where we are
> struggling against the
> bad-faith labor practices of, not only, big
> corporations like Proctor and
> Gamble (change your toothpaste and phone company),
> but also the county and
> city governments bent on breaking the backs of
> unions and the many PITIFULLY
> paid service providers to the most marginalized
> populations - kids, the
> elderly, clients of the court systems....keep your
> labor awareness keen and
> alert and please don't cross picket lines - you
> could be the next to have
> your right to earn jeopardized....
>
> jim martin - LA/Bottom's Dream
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