Re: Re: yet another US electile disfunction commentary

[Michael Perelman <michael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nathan has a point.  Part of the problem was that Gore try to redefine
himself too many times, and ended up being unconvincing, except to a
relatively small number of people.  If he had been half performer that
Clinton is, he could've pulled it off easily.

On Sat, Nov 18, 2000 at 07:05:47PM -0500, Nathan Newman wrote:
> Actually, Gore did drop most of his gun control rhetoric by the end of the
> campaign.  Remember, he actually attacked Bradley from the gun rights side
> of the debate during the primary because Bradley wanted to register all
> guns.   Gore could have gone farther in repudiating the gun control folks,
> but he spent a lot of the fall telling hunters that he would not touch their
> guns in any way and ran away from every gun control question in the debates.
> The unions spent a good chunk of their turnout energy telling their members,
> in a nice little slogan I saw, "Al Gore doesn't want to take away your gun,
> but George Bush wants to take away your union."
>
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