It has happened. Ann Coulter has become, not the bleeding edge of conservative thought or the mouthpiece of NeoCon dogma but the old crazy man down the street. The guy who sits on his front porch all day waiting for a reason to scream at an unsuspecting passer-by who've accidentally transgressed and then found themselves chastised loudly for committing an imaginary infraction conjured up in the mind of a demented fool.
The neighbors used to dislike and quite possibly fear him... now there's only room for pity and some bewildered amusement.
Clinton's vice president, Al Gore, lost an election that should have been his in a walk. In fact, he was the first incumbent president or vice president in 100 years to lose an election in peacetime with a good economy. Mind you, that was before we even knew that Gore was a deranged conspiracy theorist who believes the Earth is in serious peril from cow flatulence.
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As election predictors go, the Dow Jones has been remarkably accurate. If the Dow goes up from the end of July to the end of October, the incumbent president or vice president wins; if it goes down, the incumbent loses. It has been wrong only four times since the Dow was created in 1896.
Thus, on Nov. 1, 2000, an article in The New York Times began: "The verdict of the Dow Jones industrial average is in, and it says Al Gore is headed for the White House."
And yet Gore lost. It was only the third time in more than a century that the Dow went up in the three months before the election and the incumbent lost. The two other times were: (1) Herbert Hoover in the middle of the Great Depression, and (2) Hubert Humphrey in the middle of the Vietnam War. (The only time the Dow went down and the incumbent won anyway was for popular Dwight Eisenhower.)
Honey, Gore lost because the system was manipulated. By your "strict constitutionalists" on the Supreme Court, the RNC machine and most of all... by that fucked up state you can't even vote in properly. Clinton, although the champion of many mistakes, was not the reason Gore lost.