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- Subject: Re: Rush loses out to Madonna
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.152113.3238@nic.csu.net>
- From: jtinkle@sparc1.sparc1.csubak.edu (j. tinkle )
- Date: 17 Nov 92 15:21:12 PST
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- In article <1992Nov8.200616.346@umbc3.umbc.edu> alex@red-dragon.umbc.edu (alex)
- writes:
- >
- > _Sex_ has reached #1 on the Times Nonfiction Bestseller list, pushing
- >Rush's book to Number 2 after only 8 weeks. That means that, not only will
- > Since Madonna is more popular then Rush, does that mean the Madonna
- >is more mainstream then Rush? Or, if Madonna is part of some radical fringe
- >(as Rush claimes), is Rushs audiance simply a less popular, more whacko,
- >fringe group?
- Please! Everyone has had, (oh sorry, that's) heard of, Madonna. What's up?
- Did you buy the book?
-
- > 60% of the population may have doubts about Bill Clinton, but
- >more then that were sure that they didn't like Bush, and Bush was immensly
- >more popular then the next right wing challenger, Pat Buchannan. If Rush
- >and his ilk get their way, the next GOP offering will be somewhere between
- >George and Pat, and they'll still be surprised when they lose, because
- >after all this, Rush and the Dittoheads still think that they are middle
- >America.
- If no one else will, I will hold you to that. I don't think you're giving
- the American people enough credit.
-
- > A little math shows that if the Christian Coalition represents
- >15-20% of registered voters, then they also represent about half of
- >the GOP (about 30% of register voters). If Clinton can avoid doing
- >anything completely stupid for 4 years, then he's likely looking at at
- >William Bennett or Dan Quayle as competition, and we're looking at
- >8-12 years of democratic presidents. (It would be interesting to see
- Objection! Pure speculation. Who says that only those two guys are going
- to try to run on the Republican ticket?
-
- > Alex Crain::UMBC Academic Computing Services
- > "[PBS viewers are] affluent, highly educated, the movers and the shakers,
- > the socially conscious and the well informed. What about the rest of us?"
- > - Robert Dole
-
- Jennifer
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