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Article #30Re: Mr Clinton
From: Andrew MacRae
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 20:15
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 20:15
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In article <1992Nov4.174420.9483@pbhya.PacBell.COM>, mspayer@pbhya.PacBell.COM (Mike Payer) writes: > When you combine the votes for Bush and Perot 57% of the American people > voted against Bill Clinton. > > Question has any other President since, say FDR, ever won the Presidency > when more than 50% of the electorate voted against him? > > It would seem to me that Mr Clinton will have a problem in that he does > not come to Washington with a mandate to govern. ( comments ) My memory may be faulty, but I seem to recall that Nixon received 44% in 1968. Also, by your logic above, somewhere around 60% voted against Bush and better than 80% voted against Perot. Andrew MacRae
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!tymix!olivea!sun-barr!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!jethro.Corp.Sun.COM!Sun.COM!acm From: acm@Sun.COM (Andrew MacRae) Newsgroups: misc.headlines,ca.politics Subject: Re: Mr Clinton Message-ID: <lfgbqmINNe6k@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> Date: 4 Nov 92 20:15:18 GMT References: <1992Nov4.174420.9483@pbhya.PacBell.COM> Reply-To: acm@Sun.COM (Andrew MacRae) Distribution: usa Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View CA Lines: 19 NNTP-Posting-Host: grendal.corp.sun.com