Three reasons Bush will win

Brainwash ^ | 7/12/04 | David Freddoso

[CommerceComet]

"They claim now that it was only a few percent (something like 4% or 5%) that seperated 41 and Dukakis, and that just a few more points, and he would have won."

I would never underestimate NPR's ability to say something stupid but I wonder how accurately your friend is relaying the information. Bush-41 carried 53.4% of the vote and Dukakis 45.6, approximately an eight-point difference. In a national election that is not particularly close. Of course, in electoral votes (the only ones that really count), the 1988 election was a landslide.

In the terms of popular votes, the 1996 election between billy jeff (49.2%) and Bob Dole (40.7) had a very similar margin of victory to the 1988 election. Bush-41 was much closer to billy jeff in the 1992 election (43.0 - 37.4) than Dukakis was to Bush-41 in the 1988 election. I'm certain that those last two facts wouldn't be mentioned by NPR.

[Palladin]

Here's another reason:

http://www.scaryjohnkerry.com/itsgoodtobejfk.htm

[Sonny M]

I would never underestimate NPR's ability to say something stupid but I wonder how accurately your friend is relaying the information. Bush-41 carried 53.4% of the vote and Dukakis 45.6, approximately an eight-point difference.

I was pretty sure the differance was around 10%, but he swore they said either 4% or 5%, I don't listen to NPR, they play not just loose with the facts, but lie by ommision or simply lie outright.

Same buddy got the false impression that Karl Rove and Bush were trying to recreate McKinley's agenda and times today from NPR, it took me a half hour to explain that they took comments from a Rove interview and simply screwed around to make it something else totally different.

He's not liberal, but every now and then he'll get some bad info that seems innocent from them (he listens because he finds themm funny in the delusions).

I wouldn't trust NPR for weather.