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I call that a vote well spent, especially because those<<<<
things might not have happened if Al Gore were elected.
I personally consider it a sign that the Democrats still consider strong-environmentalism as unelectable, which is why they have to save their most radical environmental proposals for the least politically sensitive time - lame duck time. We'll see if it changes their behaviour in the future, but I would not bet on it.
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In four years, the<<<<
democrats will more than likely have the presidency again (no president who
won the electoral college, but lost the popular vote has ever won in the
reelection campaign),
You can feel free to go right on believing that - but if you think that John Quincy Adams or Hayes has anything to do with the year 2004 election, you are deluding yourself. Hayes for example didn't even run for re-election, which reduces your sample to 1.
Additionally, I can't verify this, but I believe that Thomas Jefferson lost the popular vote and went on to be re-elected - but such things were hard to measure in 1800.
JDG
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