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- From: art@world.std.com (Al Thompson)
- Subject: Re: Weinberger's Pardon
- In-Reply-To: dan@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com's message of Thu, 31 Dec 1992 15:03:40 GMT
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- Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1993 16:43:05 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec31.150340.2741@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com> dan@cae.prds.cdx.mot.com (Dan Breslau) writes:
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- bhayden@teal.csn.org (Bruce Hayden) writes:
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- [...]
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- >Maybe - with incumbant protection that was running 98% retention
- >rate in Congress. How do you compete if your oponent mails all
- >of your possible constitutents 3 times a year, then gets your
- >mother her medicare.
-
- Oh, so when Democratic incumbents in Congress get re-elected due to
- the privileges of incumbency, that's unfair competition; but when
- Reagan, using the bully pulpit of the White House, gets re-elected by
- a small majority of those who bothered to vote (*), that's a mandate.
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- (*) Some talk of the '84 election as a landslide, but really, it
- was such only by the electoral vote, not the popular vote. The
- last *real* landslide, IMHO, was Johnson over Goldwater in '64.
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- Completely untrue. Reagan got nearly 60% of the popular vote in 1984.
- In 1964 LBJ got a bit over 60%. In terms of popular landslides the two
- elections were rather similar in support for the incumbent.
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