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Article #1355Re: How Dubya Got To Be President
From: Robin*
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:53
Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 20:53
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"Bill Lindemann" <wcl@ix.netcom.com> wrote in message news:3C3FA2FA.4000908@ix.netcom.com... > Robin* wrote: > > > To quote the origonal post, "... it is only fitting that the candidates with > > the most cash should win". > > > > This inplies Bill Gates will be a lock if he ever decides to run for public > > office. > > > > If Ross Perot gets stomped, and Steve Forbes doesn't even make it to the > > primaries, then obviously money has little to with winning an election. > > > The original statement failed to include any observations about the > peculiar dynamics of third-party candidacy in America. If it had > done so, it would have been quite undeniably true. Certainly it > is true that, for major-party candidates (Democrat & Republican) money > talks. And I think it is still valid in general if one adds to the > numbers the non-monetary clout of the major party organization, which > of course itself is bought with copious "soft money" donations. If > Perot or Forbes had spent more money than Bush, You're assuming Perot and Forbes did *not* out spend Bush. If they didn't, it wasn't for lack of money. > plus an additional > increment to offset the lack of name recognition or the support of > a vast party organization, they probably would have won instead. > Money has *everything* to do with getting elected. Not true. Voters tend to vote a party line, or for the candidate they most agree with, not the one who is richest, or who spent more money.
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