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Proud Liberal Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 06:22 PM Original message |
Did Bill Bradley's Primary Challenge to Gore Have Any Effect on Election 2000? |
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mdmc (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 06:44 PM Response to Original message |
1. Bradley and Nader caused Gore the election! |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 06:49 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Joe Lieberman |
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karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 08:50 PM Response to Reply #2 |
8. True - but would the Democarts likely hold the Presidency for 5 terms |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 07:57 AM Response to Reply #8 |
21. Gore should have picked Kerry |
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Hawkowl (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 02:58 PM Response to Reply #21 |
25. Actually Gore should've picked Bradley |
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obxhead (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 08:02 PM Response to Reply #1 |
5. The SC cost Gore the election. |
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Proud Liberal Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 09:38 PM Response to Reply #1 |
12. I wasn't trying to suggest that he did |
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boppers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 06:52 PM Response to Original message |
3. Did Tipper's pro-government-censorship stance have any effect? |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 06:56 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. I was angry about that! |
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spiritual_gunfighter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 09:44 PM Response to Reply #3 |
13. I did mine too |
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Jim Sagle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 08:23 PM Response to Original message |
6. The news media were out to make sure Gore didn't become president. |
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Kurt_and_Hunter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 08:45 PM Response to Original message |
7. Bradley's challenge sharpened Gore up some but cost a little enthusiasm on the left |
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karynnj (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 08:53 PM Response to Original message |
9. It was an open seat - the establishment felt Gore had earned it, but he was not an incumbent |
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elleng (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 09:26 PM Response to Original message |
10. Bradley is the author of six non-fiction books, |
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krawhitham (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 09:37 PM Response to Original message |
11. Well he lost |
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saltpoint (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 10:32 PM Response to Original message |
14. Ok, now you've gone and made me all homesick for |
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Ter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 11:34 PM Response to Original message |
15. It wasn't a primary challenge |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 11:49 PM Response to Original message |
16. It wasn't a primary challenge in the same sense |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Jul-17-10 11:53 PM Response to Original message |
17. Bradley never got any support and was seen as more boring than Gore |
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phleshdef (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
18. Gore was not an incumbent President so its fairly irrelevant. |
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SidDithers (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 09:33 AM Response to Reply #18 |
24. Absolutely irrelevant... |
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Ross K (288 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 12:26 AM Response to Original message |
19. No. |
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bornskeptic (951 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 07:19 AM Response to Original message |
20. George H W Bush is the only sitting VP elected president in the last 174 years. |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 07:59 AM Response to Original message |
22. Gore was the sitting President in 2000? |
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Proud Liberal Dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 08:40 PM Response to Reply #22 |
32. No. But he was the natural frontrunner and the sitting VP at the time |
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DCBob (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 08:17 AM Response to Original message |
23. The difference, obviously is that Obama is the sitting President.. Gore was not.. |
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Arkana (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 03:11 PM Response to Original message |
26. No, but Al Gore was not the incumbent President. Apples and oranges. |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 03:16 PM Response to Original message |
27. Of course it did. |
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SaveOurDemocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 03:29 PM Response to Reply #27 |
28. So, should we just accept whomever the party ordains? |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 03:36 PM Response to Reply #28 |
29. Those are the facts of a primary race. |
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SaveOurDemocracy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 04:01 PM Response to Reply #29 |
30. The FACT is: A primary contest is a vital part of |
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Radical Activist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 07:17 PM Response to Reply #30 |
31. And sometimes making a symbolic statement causes the nominee to lose the general election. |
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suzie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 09:04 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. +1 |
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JoePhilly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Jul-18-10 09:00 PM Response to Original message |
33. Short answer is no. |
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