> From the current Economist: "Mr Clinton, a two-time winner at the national > level, will probably take on mythic proportions as the shrewdest of > political operators. But, in fact, his dalliance with Monica Lewinsky may > well have cost Mr Gore the election. Some 44% of voters told pollsters that > the Clinton scandals were either very or somewhat important to how they cast > their vote, and three out of four of these voted for Mr Bush. This is > despite the fact that two-thirds of voters polled also said that they > thought the country was heading in the right direction economically, which > should have given Mr Gore an easy victory." Carl In light of the size of the margin of defeat at present count, two things are obvious: 1. Any of twenty factors could have reversed the result, possibly including the abstention of the SWP candidate; 2. To attack Nader above all the other factors says more about the critic than the object of criticism. mbs
