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Vic Smith

On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 23:39:39 -0500, wrote:

On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:37:39 -0600, Vic Smith
wrote:

Palm Beach County could not understand a simple butterfly punch ballot. So
we spend $4 billion to go electronic and they now want paper ballots.

Is that the election that Bush won because Dems were voting for Pat
Buchanan?

That is somewhat misrepresented.
Buchanan got over 30,000 votes in the primary and only 3700 or so in
the general. It is clear he had a lot of support in Palm Beach County.
Most people think of "Palm Beach" (Ted Kennedy, beautiful people and
rich Jews) when they think of that county. The western part is
agricultural and a lot of those farmers were ****ed about plowing
their tomato crop under because Mexican tomatoes priced them out of
the market. Buchanan was the only anti-NAFTA candidate in that race.
There are also a lot of rednecks in West Palm Beach who liked his kick
ass attitude..

I would vote for Buchanan over Gore or Bush any day.
But I ain't a redneck. Wait. uh oh. Maybe I am.
BTW, just today I was talking to my dad in Punta Gorda and he was
bitching about how he paid $1.20 for a medium tomato, while he can
get a bushel of them for $10 in Stuart. He's a lifelong fisherman, so
he exaggerates some. But I believe him anyway.

--Vic