pbrower2a
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« on: April 10, 2009, 02:04:04 AM » |
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« edited: April 10, 2009, 02:13:23 AM by pbrower2a »
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Defeat.
I think of some alternatives:
John Kerry. weak as a campaigner as he was, was more effective than Joe Lieberman. He would have flipped New Hampshire and done just as well in winning the Jewish vote in Florida. Bare win, but enough -- in New Hampshire, if not Florida.
John Edwards would have consolidated some possible support in the South that Clinton got -- but Gore couldn't. A fiery populist from the South excites the South as a d@mnyankee semi-liberal... doesn't. Edwards might have flipped Ohio. Edwards would have been perfect for the beat-the-cheat strategy that Gore needed because he needed the entire South.
Jay Rockefeller (said above) would have picked up West Virginia; that would have been enough.
David Pryor would have surely picked up Arkansas; that would have been enough.
.. I think that Al Gore believed that the Bush campaign would operate on the level -- a gross misjudgment. The "black baby" canard against a fellow Republican opponent should have disabused Gore of any impression that Karl Rove would run anything other than a vicious and corrupt campaign and wouldn't stop at electoral fraud if given the chance.
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