Are you Glad Bush won?

i appreciate that some people decide not to vote because they don't care...those people tend to not complain anyway. Some people want to vote but are not allowed, the reasons for this vary by state.
Then we have people that don't vote because they don't wish to vote for any candidate as they feel they don't represent their views. these people do complain but they would complain whoever got in.
I wish everyone would vote, but i deeply believe they have the right not to vote as part of being free.... how many times have you seen the option on the ballot..."none of the above"?

Only in a movie..

A comedy that hit the nail on the head ;)

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Originally Posted by Rat Faced

Only in a movie..

A comedy that hit the nail on the head ;)

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Brewster's Millions?

Yes indeedy

yes it was in that movie although i wasn't drawing reference to it.

many people that have paper ballots decide to "spoil" their paper as a protest....something we are not able to do with touch screens

i agree with the lazy people not having reason to complain. all i was doing is pointing out that some people have genuine accetable reasons for not voting

including felons who did their time, and in many states regain their right to vote...but are denied, purged from the roles, etc.

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Originally Posted by Mr JP Fugley

Do you know the percentage of citizens who are denied the vote. I would suspect it is not that high, compared to the number who just don't bother. I have no way of supporting this contention, it is just a feeling.

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percentages don't matter. I already agreed with you about the lazy ones, what more do you want?
Again i point out that there are a significant amount of people that didn't vote for a personal reason or are excluded. We are talking hundreds of thousands, but then as a percentage of the US population probably not many.
But don't go condemming Americans for electing Bush.... 49% of us that did vote didn't elect him and that's about half of us that think he shouldn't be president

How about the fact that its the first time a majority (of voters) has elected a president in about 16 years?

will post more later...

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Originally Posted by 3RA1N1AC

what? homosexual marriage is a threat to heterosexual marriage? or to heterosexuals' monopoly on marriages-of-convenience, perhaps? if preserving marriage is a concern, though, i'd suggest pickling it.

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A fine idea rendered moot by the liberal monopoly on salt. :D

Seriously-

If you feel that heterosexuals are being overly protective and proprietary of the term, why do you suppose the gays are fighting so hard to appropriate it?

Please explain.