At 11:00 AM -0500 11/2/00, Declan McCullagh wrote:
In a 10/14 survey, Gore was leading California by 4 points: http://www.portraitofamerica.com/html/poll-1214.html
I suspect with Nader's surge, this lead has narrowed.
I saw a deliriously enthusiastic crowd of supporters for Nader's appearance last night on the Chris Matthews MSNBC show "Hardball." The hall was packed with his supporters, no doubt. Still, the enthusiasm was real, and stronger than what I've seen for Gush or Bore. The audience was howling and cheering as Nader called for populist/communist measures like confiscating the wealth of the rich, muzzling the speech of businessmen, and regulating businesses at all levels. "Does Bill Gates really deserve to have more total net worth than the combined assets of the bottom 40% of our country?!" Whoops and howls. One wonders if Bill Gates will rethink the wisdom of helping to fund MSNBC! Nader is getting a late start in the enthusiasm stakes, but it could be that he'll really surge. A lot of folks are mired deeply in what Nietzsche called "resentiment." They just don't like it when other people have done well by investing instead of by drinking beer for the past 20 years, and they want the successful people taken down a notch or two. Should be exciting to see what happens. If Nader succeeds in taking enough votes from Gore for Bush to win, the Dems may move further to the left in the _next_ election. --Tim May -- ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, ComSec 3DES: 831-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, "Cyphernomicon" | black markets, collapse of governments.