Jim, I think you raise an excellent point that a lot of people miss. After the 2000 mess, I had hoped that the President would do more to reach out beyond his base to the other half of the country that didn't vote for him. I don't think he's done that, as evidenced by another election predicted to be a near-tie.
While I can't say I liked everything Clinton did, I think part of the reason he is generally considered to be more successful was he had an opposition-party Congress to deal with during a large part of his term. He HAD to make compromises. He had to shoot for the middle-of-the-road policies. Right now we have a situation where Bush's party controls most of the government - they have no reason to reach out to the 50% of the country that didn't vote for him last time. Matt On Tue, 2 Nov 2004 00:01:56 -0500, Jim Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I still think that until tomorrow it's basically a coin toss. There are > just too many variables not being measured by current polling processes to > just such a close race. > > I said this last time, but I do hope (probably uselessly) that whomever > takes office seriously takes to heart the fact that very close to half the > country wanted the other guy. > > I think that both candidates could maintain their principles, push their > issues and still make an honest attempt to address issues important to the > other side. In either case it will be infuriating if we see a simple > consolidation of the existing base while ignoring critics. > > Jim Davis > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Ousterhout [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 10:56 PM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Kerry 298 Bush 231 > > Obviously a leftist publication bent on bending the will of the undecided > wimps who want to say the voted for the winner... <g> > > Interesting is that Bush has about twice as many strong electoral votes as > Kerry and that most of Kerry's votes are weak. In any case, tomorrow will > be very interesting > > Andy > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=11 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:133728 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
