[1215] in Discussion of MIT-community interests
Re: A humble opinion, two responses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Richard Tibbetts)
Thu Mar 14 17:18:20 2002
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Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 17:11:29 -0500
From: Richard Tibbetts <tibbetts@MIT.EDU>
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> Can you honestly say that you vote for people *because* they gave you candy
> or baked you something? has that ever been the deciding factor of whether
> or not you voted for someone? I hope not. Here one can say that a good
> portion of people voted for Rhett/Victor primarily b/c of the $10.
>
> That's the major difference here.
I'm pretty sure that most people who vote for Rhett "because" of the
$10 are really voting for him because its funny, because it indicates
that Rhett might shake things up as UAP. Thats why I did it.
Or maybe I have too much confidence in people.
tibbetts
PS: I still want my $10. I wasn't raised to leave money on the table.
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