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Re: Should the Florida legislature appoint electors?

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From: Xiphias Gladius
Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 05:37
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In ne.general Adam Kippes <adam.kippes@pobox.com> wrote:
> In <cnlU5.848$yA5.132870@news.shore.net>, Charles M. Kozierok wrote:

>> } I'd say that Clinton falls under a third definition, whch seems to be a
>> } little of both: someone who changes residency in order to attempt to gain
>> } political power in the new area.
>  
>> } Clinton *is* a resident.  It's just that she's a resident specifically to
>> } meddle in politics.

> And how would that differ at all from the original carpetbaggers?

Philosophically?  Not much.

The difference is that Clinton is at the end of the 20th century, and in
New York, rather than in the Reconstruction-era South.  And in that the
percentage of adults who can vote is higher in modern New York than in
the Reconstruction-era South.

	- Ian
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From: Xiphias Gladius <ian@io.com>
Subject: Re: Should the Florida legislature appoint electors?
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