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Re: Why do Hispanics have so many dents in their cars?

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From: Marcus Taliaferro
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 2002 15:09
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Keith,
Don't we know that all to well, SO, what happened to "of the people, by the
people and for the people...? I'm for killing the Electoral college and
going with the popular vote. Gosh, isn't that the majority rules. Wow, what
a concept... can we make it work?
M

"Keith R. Williams" <krw@attglobal.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.178a338f827734e0989b42@enews.newsguy.com...
> In article <aflvk9$34o$1@samba.rahul.net>, dorfman@rahul.net
> says...
> > Michael A. Clem (mclem@vigoris.net) wrote:
> >
> > :   By the way, Nixon didn't run against Goldwater, both of whom were
> > : Republicans.  Goldwater lost to Democrat Lyndon Johnson in '64, and
then Nixon
> > : beat Johnson in '68.
> >
> >      You are as wrong as Travid on this one.  Johnson declined to run
> > for re-election in 1968.  Hubert Humphrey was nominated after Bobby
> > Kennedy was killed, and Nixon won the election by a very small margin.
>
> It wasn't all that close.  Nixon had 301 to Humphrey's 191
> electoral votes, with Wallace taking 46.  I can't imagine any
> Wallace votes going for Humphrey, but it was the Deep Dem south,
> at the time, so perhaps...
>
> The popular vote was closer than this (though the Wallace factor
> was an issue here too), but as we all know the popular vote
> doesn't elect presidents.
>
> ----
>   Keith
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