Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.life From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Wed, 4 Nov 92 16:16:30 EST Message-ID: \SE D;LIFE;ELECTIONS '92;VOTE NOTES \SS (WS) THE ULTIMATE SPIN: Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas, who won re-election last night, spun out for Bryant Gumbel of NBC what may become the standard GOP take on last night's loss. Arkansas Gov. Bill Clinton has no mandate, Mr. Dole said. Add the Perot voters to the Bush voters, he said, and you have an awful lot of people who didn't want Mr. Clinton to be president. Even more, Mr. Dole said, with the capture of the White House the Democrats now have "the whole enchilada": the presidency and the Congress. He said that means that when things go wrong, they won't be able to blame it on "gridlock." Let's watch to see how this one plays out. THE NEXT CAMPAIGN: D.C. Council member Charlene Drew Jarvis apparently saw little reason to stay around town and thank her Ward 4 supporters last night. Mrs. Jarvis, co-chairman of the D.C. Clinton campaign, flew to Little Rock, Ark., yesterday morning to watch election returns. Clinton campaign officials invited her to Arkansas. For months rumors have circulated that Mrs. Jarvis would be under consideration for an appointment to a Clinton White House. MISGUIDED MISERY INDEX: A 33-year-old woman from Denver pleaded guilty yesterday to threatening the life of the president. Deborah Butler positioned herself along Mr. Bush's motorcade route near Denver with a pistol in her pocket Sept. 15 but got into a conversation with another bystander and missed the motorcade. She told Secret Service agents she had been depressed by emotional problems and had no place to go for help. NIGHT OF THE LONG KNIVES? After voting in Houston, Mr. Bush bought a stock of country music tapes, a fishing reel and a $6 license to hunt quail. He said he might go after the quail before Christmas. Meanwhile, in Huntington, Ind., Dan Quayle put off voting until he had seen his dentist. Is there meaning here? ONE MAN, ONE VOTE: New Jersey officials are embarrassed about an election district restructuring in Wrightstown in central Jersey that failed to take into account the closing of Fort Dix, a major military installation. Redistricting left one voter in the entire district. There was another, but he moved when the base closed. JIMMY WEIGHS IN: Former President Jimmy Carter, who should know, says George Bush ran a "catastrophic and self-destructive campaign" for re-election. Mr. Carter, voting in Plains and doing his part to put Georgia in Mr. Clinton's corner, was accompanied to the polling place by three election observers from Mexico. He said the Mexicans, who have a national election in 1994, were invited "to show we don't have anything to hide" in U.S. elections. Meanwhile, voters in Georgia's Gordon County were seeing double. Mr. Bush was on the ballot twice, and Mr. Clinton's name was nowhere to be found. Johnny Parker, county superintendent of elections, said the mix-up occurred on two voting machines in separate precincts, where the ballot strip had been put in the wrong place. VOTE EARLY AND OFTEN: Election officials in Portland, Ore., fielded several dozen angry calls from voters, upset that they had mistakenly voted for the president because of confusing placement of the candidates' names on the ballot. Seems the check-off box for Mr. Clinton printed on the ballot was a bit closer to Mr. Bush's name than it was to the Arkansas governor's. "Some actually voted for George Bush," said Alfredo Wheelock, a lawyer for the state Clinton-Gore campaign. BIG HAIR TRIUMPHANT: It's been an open secret that Mr. Bush has said that if he lost the election, he would spend half his time in Maine and half in Texas. Last night Texas Gov. Ann Richards had a chance to comment on that. She told David Brinkley on ABC that she'd be delighted to have George and Barbara "come home" to Texas. "Would you be nice to him?" Mr. Brinkley asked. The gracious governor said, "We are always recruiting people to come and spend their money in Texas to improve the economy." And everybody laughed. Compiled by Cathryn Donohoe from wire service reports. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM