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Re: Socialists endorse Kerry

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From: Paul remove-the-nospam Day
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2004 12:54
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In wa.general Stephen  X. Carter <steve@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:
> Jolly interesting stuff, but the vast majority of folk for
> whom this newsgroup (wa.general) was created will not have a
> vote in the forthcoming election for the president of the
> USA.

Will the majority of American's bother voting? With Bush, does it even
matter if they vote, and will they even be allowed to vote when they
turn up to the polling station or will it be a repeat of Florida in
2000?

> wa.general is for 
> 
>         WESTERN AUSTRALIA
> 
> If you want to make your point about USA politics, then
> you'll reach a far larger audience if you re-direct your
> posting to 
> 
>         wash.general 

What's worse is he knew about wash.general - he posted the original
message there _and_ to wa.general just for good luck. :> Or maybe he's
inferring that Australia should just get used to being the 51st United
State of America?

PD

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From: Paul remove-the-nospam Day <paul@nospam.bur.st>
Subject: Re: Socialists endorse Kerry
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