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To: SUSSA
Sometimes in politics you pander to a group not because you expect their votes, but to symbolize your message to a much larger group.

Case in point, Bush meeting with homosexuals during the 2000 campaign. Now despite our gravely oversexed society, there just aren't enough activist homosexuals in the world to justify Bush spending any time at all with them to get their votes.

But Bush spent time with them to send a message to the voters in the mushy middle: I, George W. Bush, am open-minded. I am not a bigot. I care about all Americans. You can vote for me and not be worried that you will be embarrassed in front of your wine and cheese intellectual friends.

Having said that, I still believe that Mexican immigrants will vote Democrat, and I can't think of any constituency group that will be more likely to vote for Bush because of this. The socialists will vote Democrat regardless, because a Republican will never outspend a Democrat. Hispanics, blacks, welfare recepients: ditto Democrat.

218 posted on 01/10/2002 8:34:07 PM PST by Zack Nguyen
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To: Zack Nguyen
President Bush doesn't pander. He is restoring welfare that Clinton cut because he is a good conservative and knows that government needs to take care of people who don't work.
220 posted on 01/10/2002 8:42:31 PM PST by SUSSA
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