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Article #37Re: Mr Clinton
From: Caryn S. Prater
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 22:46
Date: Wed, 04 Nov 1992 22:46
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In article <1992Nov4.174420.9483@pbhya.PacBell.COM> mspayer@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 )
>
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> MSP - mspayer.pacbell.com
>
> ......SOMETIMES THE DRAGON WINS
So give it up already, if you use that logic then 61% of the country
voted against Bush, pretty bad for a sitting President and 81% voted
against Perot. So what Bush didn't have a mandate to govern either
because the number of people voting was much lower.
Caryn
>
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Nolite te bastardes carborunodorum
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Newsgroups: misc.headlines,ca.politics Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gumby!wupost!swbatl!oktext!cp7927 From: cp7927@oktext.sbc.com (Caryn S. Prater) Subject: Re: Mr Clinton Message-ID: <1992Nov4.224657.9405@swbatl.sbc.com> Sender: usenet@swbatl.sbc.com Reply-To: cp7927@oktext.UUCP (Caryn S. Prater) Organization: Southwestern Bell References: <1992Nov4.174420.9483@pbhya.PacBell.COM> Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 22:46:57 GMT Lines: 28