AMERICAN ASSASSINATION:
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The Strange Death of
Senator Paul Wellstone:
by Don "Four Arrows" Jacobs, Ed.D., Ph.D., and James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.
No one disputes that, prior to the election of 2002, the United States Senate was divided 50-49 with the Democrats in control. The split had come about as a result of the decision by Vermont Senator James Jeffords to disavow his status as a Republican and declare himself an Independent.
No one disputes that Georgia Senator Max Cleland lost an election he had been widely expected to win, where the votes were tabulated by electronic voting machines. The death of Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone not only deprived the Democrats of a majority during the lame-duck session after the election but the subsequent loss of Walter Mondale to Norm Coleman, whom Wellstone was defeating, cost them control of the Senate.
At the time, the victory was broadly hailed as displaying the power of the Bush machine, where the President was said to have placed his reputation "on the line". But more and more studies have suggested that Max Cleland's loss may have been due to machine manipulations of the vote rather than to genuine political muscle. And if the death of Paul Wellstone, who was pulling ahead of Norm Coleman, was no accident, as other studies suggest, then it may have been far less of a political risk for George W. Bush to have campaigned aggressively for a predetermined result. If the Republicans proved anything during the fiasco in Florida, it's that they can count. The outcome was control of the Senate, 51-48, with that one lone Independent.
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The Strange Death of
Senator Paul Wellstone:
by Don "Four Arrows" Jacobs, Ed.D., Ph.D., and James H. Fetzer, Ph.D.
No one disputes that, prior to the election of 2002, the United States Senate was divided 50-49 with the Democrats in control. The split had come about as a result of the decision by Vermont Senator James Jeffords to disavow his status as a Republican and declare himself an Independent.
No one disputes that Georgia Senator Max Cleland lost an election he had been widely expected to win, where the votes were tabulated by electronic voting machines. The death of Minnesota Senator Paul Wellstone not only deprived the Democrats of a majority during the lame-duck session after the election but the subsequent loss of Walter Mondale to Norm Coleman, whom Wellstone was defeating, cost them control of the Senate.
At the time, the victory was broadly hailed as displaying the power of the Bush machine, where the President was said to have placed his reputation "on the line". But more and more studies have suggested that Max Cleland's loss may have been due to machine manipulations of the vote rather than to genuine political muscle. And if the death of Paul Wellstone, who was pulling ahead of Norm Coleman, was no accident, as other studies suggest, then it may have been far less of a political risk for George W. Bush to have campaigned aggressively for a predetermined result. If the Republicans proved anything during the fiasco in Florida, it's that they can count. The outcome was control of the Senate, 51-48, with that one lone Independent.
Read about it here!
Book American Assasination the strange death of Paul Wellstone
Link Here
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