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1000 Reasons not to vote for GW
Dartful Dodger:
--- Quote from: danny_galaga on September 27, 2004, 09:59:40 am ---official campaigning goes for a number of weeks (can't quite think if it's 3 or 6 weeks). elections are held on a saturday. normally takes about half an hour out of my life once every three years. i think thats pretty good value to have a government that is accountable to ALL types of people...
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That's nice, you don't spend any time figuring out whos the best man/woman for the job, just the half hour needed to push buttons and pull levers in a booth. At least the odds are you'll elect the right person once every 6 years.
fredster:
That's nice Dan.
Here in TN we can start voting 2 weeks before an election with early voting. I usually beat the rush and vote at lunch time the week before. It makes it very convienent.
Do you really think that China is releasing all the info you should know? Besides, if you break a law there, you don't get out. So IF the stats are even close to being true, the repeat offenders is very very low.
Comparing Communist countries to free democracies is comparing oranges to chalk. The only simularities in the governments is that they have boundries and there are people there. Otherwise, it's lacking.
You failed to note that Austrailia leads the list of most crime victims. Maybe you should re-think the prison thing.
You didn't finish. What happens if you don't vote? Do you get to go to prison so you don't have to vote for 5 years?
Most states allow prisoners to vote after doing their time. Some can vote in Prison.
The article from Andy Rooney (which you didn't read) says that if you aren't smart enough to deal with the issues, then don't vote. If you don't understand politics, then please, don't vote, it screws it up for the rest of us.
mr.Curmudgeon:
Why Bush Will Lose In November.
1) In 2000, he lost the popular vote. Republicans traditionally vote every election in greater numbers than Democrats (33% or higher) and Bush still couldn't pull it off. With record numbers of newly registered voters throughout the U.S., I think it's safe to say the vast majority of them or going to vote democrat. Apathy will not be a factor this election. Why do you think Republicans have traditionally never cared for 'voter registration' drives....they only help the Democrats.
2) Anybody But Bush. How bad does a president have to be in order to fully motivate an entire contingent of people who would rather vote for a stone than vote for the incumbent president? I think this speaks to Bush's failures and not to Kerry's shortcomings, thus people that wouldn't have normally voted will be voting this year, against Bush.
3) Howard Stern. 8+ million listeners w/ family & friends, 'nuff said.
4) Nader Factor Nil. Nader will not be a factor this election, at all. People voting for him wouldn't vote for any establishment candidate anyhow. He's no longer a "protest vote" as most Americans realize the stakes are high (ie: minimal undecideds)
5) No incumbent polling at or near 50% has ever won re-election.
6) Minorities unite to create majority. Gays, Blacks, Latino, Arab Americans...all leaning heavily towards Kerry.
7) Iraq in chaos, Colonel calls "unmitgated disaster". Will only get worse before election.
--- Quote ---"From a purely military standpoint, the war in Iraq is an unmitigated disaster. This administration failed to make even a cursory effort at adequately defining the political end state they sought to achieve by removing Saddam Hussein, making it impossible to precisely define long-term military success. That, in turn, makes it impossible to lay out a rational exit strategy for U.S. troops. Like Vietnam, the military is again being asked to clean up the detritus of a failed foreign policy. We are nose-deep in a protracted insurgency, an occupying Christian power in an oil-rich, Arab country. That country is not now and has never been a single nation. A single, unified, democratic Iraq comprised of Kurds, Shiites and Sunnis is a willfully ignorant illusion at best." --- Retired Air Force Col. Mike Turner is a former military planner who served on the U.S. Central Command planning staff for operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. Sept, 24th 2004.
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There are a ton of other little factors that when added together point to a tremendous groundswell of voter turnout against Bush. I'm predicting, right here, that unless we see monumental voting fraud, we're looking at a landslide victory for Kerry. Nothing I have seen leads me to worry about Bush's chances in this election (other than Diebold voting fraud). I'm not even convinced that a Bin Laden "October Suprise" capture would do much for Bush, as even the administration seems to be making Zarqawi the new hotness...
If you are a Bush supporter, it all boils down to one simple question...Do you think Bush has pleased more people than he has utterly pissed off?
Enjoy!
mrC
GGKoul:
--- Quote from: mr.Curmudgeon on September 27, 2004, 01:55:04 pm ---Why Bush Will Lose In November.
3) Howard Stern. 8+ million listeners w/ family & friends, 'nuff said.
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I hope the all of his listeners go out and vote.
fredster:
Ok. Landslide is 60%.
50% say he is gooding a good job. 45% say he isn't. 5% want pie.
(it vacilates between 47-52% week to week)
Clinton won on 50% in '96.
I can't wait for the debates. It's Bush's campaign to loose in this case.