>>>>>>>Best zinger of all 3 debates? Horses and bayonets. I literally LOL'd.
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>>>>>>>I can understand pro-Obama supporters, and I can understand anti-Obama people. I get their philosophical differences. I get voting for Obama because you believe in his vision. I get voting for Romney because you think anything is better than Obama.
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>>>>>>>What I genuinely can't understand is how anybody can truly be behind Romney. A vote for Romney is like voting for a question mark. What does Romney stand for? Who the hell knows.
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>>>>>>>He was pro-choice, and then he wasn't.
>>>>>>>He was pro stem-cell research, and then he wasn't.
>>>>>>>He was a hunter, and then he wasn't.
>>>>>>>He was pro public health ins, and then he wasn't.
>>>>>>>He was pro gun-control, and then he wasn't.
>>>>>>>He was for inflation increases on min. wage, and then he wasn't.
>>>>>>>He doesn't want to return to Reagan-Bush, and then Reagan was his hero.
>>>>>>>He was an interventionist, until last night's debate.
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>>>>>>I think that Romney has proven what he stands for. He will say anything to get elected. Should he be successful, the voters will get what they deserve.
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>>>>>Don't vote. It only encourages them.
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>>>>If you don't vote, you can't bitch about the results. You don't get to make a decision by not making a decision and then not liking the decision that was made because it isn't the decision you would have made, but you chose not to make a decision.
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>>>If you don't vote you can still bitch about the results, the government, and anything else you wish to complain about. Abstention is also an electors opinion.
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>>Just not a useful one.
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>Not necessarily. A low poll is a useful warning to politicians that they are not engaging with the majority of voters and they need to up their game.
If Congress isn't getting the message from their 17% approval rating I'm afraid they are immune to such. They would rather have someone not vote than to vote for a challenger. Voting for a third party may send a message, because it is a message from a voter. But not voting at all says, literally, nothing.
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
