CDR: RE: A very brief politcal rant

Declan McCullagh declan at well.com
Fri Nov 10 10:00:24 PST 2000


As a working journalist writing about politics, I get lots of feedback from 
voters. Many are, sadly, clueless.

But it is a stretch to assert, as you blithely do, that every voter knew 
that the guy was dead. My own experience shows otherwise.

-Declan

At 09:55 11/10/2000 -0800, Ernest Hua wrote:
>To believe your assertions, you would have to assume that the
>voter walked into the booth never picking up on any news and
>never spoke to anyone, and just had no clue who he/she was
>voting for.  This behavior is clearly legal.  But just as Tim
>cannot be concerned about inner city welfare mothers ("maggots"?
>what word did he use?), I simply cannot be concerned about this
>uninformed segment of the electorate.









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