DEFINETLY JOINED AT THE HIP
Posted on 07/24/2004 2:13:59 PM PDT by The_Victor
I found this today
not too sure of its accuracy
for all I know it could be right on.
I hope not
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
You make some VERY valid points!
Thanks!
Yep. If they had spent that money and time in FL instead it would not have been close. The election would have been decided by 9pm in November of 2000.
Thanks for the ping!
Your scenarios and the comments to them are all well and good, but I really see this election being about something much more fundamental.
George Bush and John Kerry represent two totally different paths. For all of the exagerated rhetoric here at FR about traitors and what-not this split has happened at previous times in US history.
The choice of direction is then often made as a result of events and the most likely catalyst this time will be a terrorist attack.
However, assuming that no dramatic and unpredictable event changes the election, the electorate, as they consider the issues, will ultimately make an econmic decision.
The primary choice, IMHO is about wealth redistribution.
Do the majority of Americans feel that there are too few persons with power and are they willing to vote in individuals who claim they will redistribute it? Or do the American people realize that the road to universal wealth and prosperity is paved by the very wealthy and prosperous. In a meritocracy the answer is obvious. In a land of aristocrcy it is not. So are the waelthy elite there because the earned it or inherited it? The way you answer the question will determine who you will vote for as well as, if not better than any other denominator.
To me this is a good reason to 1. support most of W's policies and 2. to have an estate tax.
bttt
http://www.electoral-vote.com/
This prediction is exceedingly biased. Check out the links to Bush on this page here: http://www.electoral-vote.com/info/bush-record.html
I don't see the election coming down to this. Has any Democrat since LBJ really done a lot to enact redistribution? They might've blocked efforts to undo redistributive efforts of the past, but I think this election is going to be about national security, plain and simple, especially if we get another attack between now and the election.
Kerry was a supporter of the "People's Peace Treaty," a supposed "people's" declaration to end the war, reportedly drawn up in communist East Germany.
It included nine points, all of which were taken from Viet Cong peace proposals at the Paris peace talks as conditions for ending the war.
One of the provisions stated: "The Vietnamese pledge that as soon as the U.S. government publicly sets a date for total withdrawal [from Vietnam], they will enter discussion to secure the release of all American prisoners, including pilots captured while bombing North Vietnam."
In other words, Kerry and his VVAW advocated the communist line to withdraw all U.S. troops from Vietnam first and then negotiate with Hanoi over the release of prisoners. Had the nine points of the "People's Peace Treaty" favored by Kerry been accepted by American negotiators, the United States would have totally lost all leverage to get the communists to release any POWs captured during the war years.
VVAW supported demonstration, Washington Spring Offensive, April - May 1971
250 + Swift Boat Vets tell the truth about Hanoi Kerry
http://www.swiftvets.com/article.php?story=20040629220813790
More than 250 Swift boat veterans have now signed an open letter to Senator Kerry
challenging his fitness to serve as commander-in-chief of America's armed forces.
http://www.swiftvets.com/index.php?topic=KerryinVietnam
"So far as we are able to determine, Kerry was the only Swift sailor
ever to leave Vietnam without completing the standard one-year tour of duty,
other than those who were seriously wounded or killed."
http://www.swiftvets.com/staticpages/index.php?page=Fitreps
Analysis of John Kerry's Fitness Reports
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