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« on: September 02, 2006, 01:03:29 PM » |
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Clinton would have won. It would have been closer than in real life, but I can't see Jackson getting more than 5 or 6% of the vote. I think you're underestimating the extent to which African-Americans love Bill Clinton, even now. For many, he's their favorite living white person. Jesse Jackson would have been very foolish or egoistic to think that he could pull off something like this. Also, the desertion of the black left and a few white liberals to Jackson would allow Clinton to move (very) slightly to the center and attract more moderate white voters, who in real life either voted for Perot or stayed home.
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