those who can’t be bothered, can’t be bothered.
This year, perhaps 90 million Americans who could vote won’t.
…A nationwide USA TODAY/Suffolk University Poll of people who are eligible to vote … Two-thirds of them say they are registered to vote. Eight in 10 say the government plays an important role in their lives. …Only 39% could correctly name the vice president
…cite a range of reasons for declaring they won’t vote or saying the odds are no better than 50-50 that they will:
They’re too busy.
They aren’t excited about either candidate.
Their vote doesn’t really matter.
And nothing ever gets done, anyway.
How many times are we going to hear panikked, breathless reports of this today? Betcha they leave out this bit:
Even in 2008, when turnout was the highest in any presidential election since 1960, almost 80 million eligible citizens didn’t vote. Curtis Gans, director of the non-partisan Center for the Study of the American Electorate, predicts that number will rise significantly this year. He says turnout could ebb to levels similar to 2000, when only 54.2% of those eligible to vote cast a ballot. That was up a bit from 1996, which had the lowest turnout since 1924. [Coolidge -vs- Davis]
I, for one, would pay ‘em to stay home. Obobo is offering to pay ‘em to vote.
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Well with all the talking heads pointing out every three minutes that only the 5 or 6 big swing states matter, I can see how some less motivated/politically involved people come to the conclusion that it doesn’t matter. And the track record for the DC rats getting anything done in the last 4 years doesn’t help.
And, Claire, now the Social Security Administration is buying up ammo……does this mean they’re running out of money and preparing to have to fight people off?????
Back in the 50′s, Isaac Asmov wrote a short story, “Franchise”, set in the year 2008. The premise is that by computer analysis of the population, exactly one person is selected to represent the ideal average voter. He gets to decide the outcome of all the elections in the country.
In Asimov’s stories, the computer is “Multivac” (the really big computer of the time was the UNIVAC – which correctly predicted the 1952 election).
The story ends with ““In this imperfect world, the sovereign citizens of the first and greatest Electronic Democracy had, through Norman Muller (through him!) exercised once again its free, untrammeled franchise.”
(lots of links on the Web)
Here`s the thing about presidential election years. Every fucking outfit or individuals hit the airwaves like a fucking locust swarm. The truth? Only one matters and that is a professional outfit called Rasmussen! Best record, mainly due to no bias….That is what infected Gallup.
USA Today poll? Mouth breathing so-called
journalistsjornolists, who vote straight RAT!For the record: most of The Porch votes
(R)Stoopid Party. BUT, we got heads that are screwed on right. All of us vote. All of us know that the real target of The Tea Party is actually the Establishment Republicans. It will take time but eventually the new “Young Guns” of the Stoopid Party, with our help, will clean up the (R)s.Only a 20 joints-a-day weenie would try to save a Party that has Peloosey, Dirty Harry, Barney Frank, OBoBo, Plugs, Thunder Thighs, the *Guam tipping over* guy, Jimmah, Slick Willy, Moonbeam, Gregorie, Kennedy, Fauxahontas, ad pukium… the SNL sweater wearing guy in a mirror, and the entire fucking Chicago-crooks/ retards………….
America is THE greated nation-state in the history of the world; bar none! And that nation happened with only 50% luck. Due to Canada on the top and Mexico on the fucking bottom!
We can make it 100% lucky. How? By building a 50 foot thick by 250 feet high wall on our southern border—–using QUIK BLOX! (Sorry, for your unfamiliarity with QB, but they are a recent invention of a KisPer…) Nuclear-proof concrete blocks that interlock with NO CEMENT and assembled in 1/4th the time of conventional concrete blocks using traditional cement to bond them together………
I have done.
Don’t worry Col. Jerry, we’ll get a wall that size on the southern border.
It will be to keep Americans IN
Shoot…even Biden can’t identify the VP.
All you Dems out there; let me see you at the polls to vote for Uhbama, Wednesday, Nov 7, 2012. Don’t forget now, we’re counting on you.
No matter who gets the most votes, the government always gets in.
I live in Illinois. In the Presidential race I will vote for the Romney/Ryan ticket. Here in Illinois, that’s a waste of effort, so if all I was going to do was vote in the Presidential race I wouldn’t bother to go to the polls.
But there’s plenty of other races to vote on. As a homeowner in Illinois I pay $6K in property taxes a year. It’s split up among various agencies, many of whom are run by specific elected officials. Those are worth voting for – or against – as in many cases they are not Dem or GOP, they’re local parties and you can’t reflexively vote Dem or GOP and pick up candidates in those races.