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From: mrh@cybvax0.UUCP (Mike Huybensz)
Newsgroups: net.politics
Subject: Re: Edwin Meese
Message-ID: <876@cybvax0.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 5-Jan-86 19:21:56 EST
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Posted: Sun Jan  5 19:21:56 1986
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In article <3630040@csd2.UUCP> sykora@csd2.UUCP (Michael Sykora) writes:
> >/* jim@ISM780B.UUCP /  3:32 pm  Jan  2, 1986 */
> >and disgusting to justify those policies based on the mere fact that Reagan
> >was elected, as though that gave him a mandate of any sort, rather than
> >indicating that people were confused, misled, beguiled, apathetic, and
> >unenamored by Mondale.
> 
> Apparently, Jim holds the American people in high esteem.
> Can you say SORE LOSER??

Golly, I want to play that game too.  Can you say CHILDISH GLOATER??

Jim and alot of other people recognize that the American people are just that:
people.  And as such are fallible, gullable, etc.  Are you trying to take the
potition that they are decisive, infallible, enthusiastic, etc. about
elections?

MANY of the people I know said "I hate Reagan and his policies: I just hate
Carter/Mondale worse."  These were people who (given a different system of
elections that would promote numerous candidates [such as the ones detailed
in Scientific American a couple of years ago]) would have repudiated Reagan
and much of what he stands for.  I don't know their numbers, but I have seen
polls where I noted that they were a sizeable group.  (Can't remember the
sources.)
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Mike Huybensz		...decvax!genrad!mit-eddie!cybvax0!mrh