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In article <327fa4d2.18280243@news.okstate.edu>,
Bradley Kent <kbradle@math.okstate.edu> wrote:
>On Wed, 06 Nov 1996 12:17:37 -0800, james berry <james.berry@sematech.org>
>wrote:
>
>>Jim wrote:
>>> 
>>> Steve Crisp wrote:
>>> >
>>> > Blyden Potts wrote:
>>> > >
>>> > > In the spirit of the election it might be fun to have people offer "votes" on who
>>> > > they believe were the five sleaziest Presidents in U.S. history.  Please provide the
>>> > > names of your candidates, a ranked order, and brief reasons they should be considered.
>>> > > If you like, we can also recognize a distinction between being personally sleazy and
>>> > > having a corrupt or sleazy administration.  Reply with your vote.
>
>He got 50% percent of the vote compared to Dole's %41.  No lanside like the
>more that 100 newspapers that support Clinton are touting.  He made need to
>bone up on history, but you need to tune into current events.  The original
>poster only cracked the surface on the many truths reported quitely in the
>news regarding Clinton.  
>

Clinton/Gore    45,599,094   50%
Dole/Kemp       37,842,270   41%
Perot/Choate     7,866,627    9%



1980 results:

Ronald Reagan  43,899,248    
Carter         35,481,435
Anderson        5,719,437


  Basically, if you consider Reagan's win in 1980 to be a landslide, then
Clinton's was a landslide also. They won by about the same number of votes
and with about the same percentages. Heck..  *more* people voted for Clinton
than voted for Reagan.

  There is a basic difference tho. In 1980, Reagan could claim that he
was elected as part of a mandate considering he was part of a wave of
people elected that year. There was no such mandate this year. If anything, 
the voting reflected a deep resentment of both sides. The country voted
*for* a gridlock situation for the next 4 years.


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