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Really--no ads in California? No
campaigning?
Oh, how I envy you.
"Those poor kids. So young. So nauseous."
--Krusty the Klown
Telethon for Motion Sickness
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 4:25
PM
Subject: RAT electoral college
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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