tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29622675.post7568002589644436549..comments2023-10-10T18:19:44.462+07:00Comments on VA to VN: No Delegate Lead for ObamaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29622675.post-48673628245829753012008-03-04T05:28:00.000+07:002008-03-04T05:28:00.000+07:00Nice comprehension.Should 40% of those voters stay...Nice comprehension.<BR/><BR/>Should 40% of those voters stay home? Well, yeah, maybe. <BR/><BR/>That's the thing with the entire, BS, 'go out and vote, it counts,' the anti-Green Party, anti-Nader backlash in 2000, etc. <BR/><BR/>Those trite sound bites, the MTV rock the vote BS, the bitching about Nader in Florida, all that is bull. There is hand wringing over more votes for American Idol vs. the Presidential election by the media as if that is a bad thing.<BR/><BR/>It is not. People out there are smarter than they get credit for. A lot of people do not go out and vote because they know their vote does not matter. EIther they are in the minority that is not gonna win or they're in the majority that is gonna win regardless, so they stay home. Your vote only matter if you are margins in a contested election - that is why the independent/swing voter matters so gosh darn much in the generals. <BR/><BR/>You have a lot of 'angry' for nothing. "So under your plan, 40% of Americans should just stay home for all national elections, huh?" McFly, over 40% ALREADY STAY HOME.<BR/><BR/>If we get to brass tacks, the only votes that matter in a tight Presidential race are those in Florida, Ohio, etc.. the swing states. <BR/><BR/>A 50-state strategy sounds nice and ebullient, but frankly it's naive to think that Clinton or Obama will spend more time campaigning in Alabama for the general than one of the swing states.<BR/><BR/>Sorry to burst your bubble, but if all of Alabama voted for McCain it would not change anything.D.https://www.blogger.com/profile/11493832932541943259noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29622675.post-16214020928607117542008-03-04T02:25:00.000+07:002008-03-04T02:25:00.000+07:00Wow. So you would say to someone like me, a Democ...Wow. So you would say to someone like me, a Democrat living in Alabama, "fuck off -- we don't want your vote"??<BR/><BR/>So, in addition to my vote in the general election counting for nothing, you'd like my vote in the primary to count for nothing as well???<BR/><BR/>With all due respect (and very little is due), that is elitist bullshit.<BR/><BR/>I wish we elected our president on a purely popular vote. The electoral college system sucks.<BR/><BR/>But it's the system we have, and it disenfranchises the people who live in the "wrong" state. In the 2004 Bush/Kerry election, nearly 40% of people voted in their state's minority (Bush voters in a Kerry state, and vice versa).<BR/><BR/>So under your plan, 40% of Americans should just stay home for all national elections, huh?<BR/><BR/>I'm glad that the Clintons -- who live and die by this red state/blue state garbage -- are losing to a candidate in Obama that has a legitimate "50 state strategy."<BR/><BR/>Even if Obama won't win in Alabama in November (he'll surely do better than either Kerry or Gore), he brings Democrats to the polls, which is good for down-ticket races. He also forces McCain to campaign in places like Georgia, Alabama, Tennessee, etc.<BR/><BR/>Please don't tell people their votes don't matter. My vote in the primary counted just as much as a vote in one of the "blue states," and I'm proud of that fact.Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10456377199208520004noreply@blogger.com