----- Original Message ----- From: "Julia Thompson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 9:00 PM Subject: Re: 2004 Elections (and Kerry)
> Julia Thompson wrote: > > > > "John D. Giorgis" wrote: > > > > > > At 12:11 PM 1/20/2004 -0800 Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > > >My own sense of Kerry comes from five years in Boston. > > > > I kept running into liberal Democrats who hated, > > > >hated, _hated_ George Bush. They also knew (as in had > > > >met) John Kerry (Massachusetts is a sufficiently small > > > >state that running into a Senator is a fairly common > > > >occurrence). > > > > > > Uhhh.... Gautam.... I think that you are forgetting that you are travelling > > > in a pretty extraordinary circle having gone from a Poli Sci major at > > > Harvard to McKinsey. > > > > I saw nothing extraordinary in Gautam's statement. > > > > Then again, my perception of New England states is influenced by my time > > in New Hampshire, which had a smaller population than Massachusetts. > > <snip> > > One other thing -- Kerry was elected to the House of Representatives > sometime in the 1980s, from a district at least close enough to Boston > that the Boston TV stations carried his campaign ads. It's not that > far-fetched to have run into someone in eastern Massachusetts who'd have > run into some particular Congressman elected from that area sometime in > the past 20 years. Especially if you were seeking out people who had > been active in political campaigns. > > (I never ran into my own Congressional representative from that time, > but I was in the same chemistry class as one of his nieces. I *have* > had brief dealings with the man who is now my Congressional > representative.) > I was going to say: "Hopefully you washed the dress" But then I decided not to. <G> xponent Hose 'N' Wash Maru rob _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
