From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Presidential predictions Re: Perot?
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Date: 24 Jul 92 19:28:20 PST
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In article <dano.711931644@srl01> dano@srl01.usl.edu (Dan Stephenson) writes:
> mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) writes:
> >> >My Popular vote predictions:
> >> >
> >> >George Bush:  55%
> >> >Bill Clinton: 35%
> >> >Ross Perot:   10%
> >> >
> >> >Indeed, I do think Ross Perot _will_ get such a large percentage.
> >>
> >> I hope it's a lot more than that (say, 65% :^)).  Of course, were it
> >> so, old H. Ross probably wouldn't live long enough to move into the
> >> Presidential palace anyway...
> >>
>
> >Paranoia.  I gave Perot 30% of the vote, whether he is IN or not.  To
> >indicate how significant that is, the most votes ANY 3rd party candidate
> >has gotten in this century is 12% (Teddy Roosevelt).
>
> Gosh, that 12% figure would temper most ALL tendencies to predsict
> 30% for Perot, eh?
>

With Perot in the race, he gets 60% or more of Clinton's voters.  Note
that the day after Perot "pulls out" Clinton's poll values more than
doubled...  The tendancy to predict 30% for Perot indicates how much
danger the democratic party is of becoming extinct in the next 20
years or so.

Also, I should point out that popular vote and electoral vote are two
different things.  As it stands now, Bush has 210 electoral votes
in the bag - but Perot would gain some of those by winning a state
like California (he was well ahead in the polls here).  BTW, 270
electoral votes are needed to win - Bush should get those easily.

> >People - if you want to vote for change, vote out ALL incumbents at ALL
> >levels of government.  Choose the Libertarian candidate for President.
> >Get rid of congress is the first priority.
>
> Too bad that voting in anarchy is an oxymoron.
>

I disagree that Libertarians advocate anarchy.  But that is a whole new
lengthy topic :)  My real point is that the Libertarians are the biggest
change possible if that is what you want.  FWIW, if Bush dumps Quayle,
I would find it hard not to vote Libertarian - not because I like Quayle
so much, but it would show to me a lack of backbone in Bush :)

> >Trivia:  Who is the only incumbent VP to run for president and WIN
> >when his president left office?  Answer: George Bush.  So what
> >does that say about Dan Quayle?  It says that Bush didn't pick his
> >friend Jim Baker so Baker could do something USEFUL as Secy of State
> >and have a much better chance to WIN as president in 1996.
>
> Assuming he runs in 1996, I do really like Jack Kemp.  I odnt't know
> as much about Baker, except for the WONDERFUL work he does as Secy.
> of State.
>

I am a BIG fan of Kemp and would prefer him over ANYONE in the world
as our next president or future president.  However, we must realize
that Baker is Bush's buddy and that is Bush's motivation for NOT
making Baker VP.

> >Amiga programmer of: GRn, MailMinder, Budokan, Beyond Dark Castle, Dark Castle
> >Sega Genesis programmer of: Dick Tracy and Marble Madness.
>
> Are you the SOLE programmer behind these? Is you NAME or something in
> the
> packageing?
>

I am sole programmer of GRn, MailMinder and Dick Tracy.  Budokan was designed
by Mike Kosaka, programmed on the PC in assembly by Ray Tobey, and recoded in
68000 for the Amiga by myself.  DC and BDC were designed by Mark Pierce and
programmed on the Mac by Jon (I forget his last name) for the Mac.  I rewrote
both versions entirely from scratch without looking at the Mac sources -
about 400K of assembled assembly language.  Marble Madness was programmed
by Atari Coin-op (several programmers) and ported to the Amiga (under the
OS) by Larry Reed (in 'C') which I ported to the Sega and optimized to make
it run at 30Hz (same speed as coin-op version).  The Amiga version ran at
3Hz (thank you OS :)

>
> >Mike Schwartz  (ames!zorch!amiga0!mykes or mykes@amiga0.sf-bay.org)
> >1124 Fremont Ave.
> >Los Altos, CA 94024
>
> --
> Dan Stephenson|das9674@usl.edu masres10@ucs.usl.edu dano@srl01.cacs.usl.edu
> Come all of you you/Who are not satisfied/As rulers in a lone wall/
> papered room/Full of mute bird and flowers that /Falsely bloom/And
> closets choked with dreams that long ago died,... --Judy Collins

--
Amiga programmer of: GRn, MailMinder, Budokan, Beyond Dark Castle, Dark Castle
Sega Genesis programmer of: Dick Tracy and Marble Madness.
Mike Schwartz  (ames!zorch!amiga0!mykes or mykes@amiga0.sf-bay.org)
1124 Fremont Ave.
Los Altos, CA 94024