I have a very low opinion of many of the college professors that are supposed to be teaching students how to succeed in life and instead fill their heads with ideological dribble. After those students grow up and have a job, pay their bills/taxes, raise a family and find out what it's like in the real world then I would value their opinion a lot more.
Obama easily won the youth vote nationally, 67 percent to 30 percent, with young voters proving the decisive difference in Florida, Virginia, Pennsylvania and Ohio. The demographics among minorities and young voters will just grow as older white voters die off.
27% of eligable voters voted for Obama - 73% didn't. There are about 229 million eligible voters in the U.S. - 62 Million voted for Obama, 167 million didn't.
the fact of the matter is............there is a strong force that is dismantaling the present 2 party system......it won't happen overnight. Ya start with ONE AT A TIME!!
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
the fact of the matter is............there is a strong force that is dismantaling the present 2 party system......it won't happen overnight. Ya start with ONE AT A TIME!!
Do you think we will see it in our lifetime? Somehow big money has to be removed from the process.
JUST BECAUSE SISSY SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO...BUT HE THINKS IT DOES!!!!! JUST BECAUSE MC1 SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO!!!!!
the fact of the matter is............there is a strong force that is dismantaling the present 2 party system......it won't happen overnight. Ya start with ONE AT A TIME!!
Hopefully the Republican party can return to it's former glory when they actually had IDEAS and stood for something. The GOP used to be the party of Fiscal Conservativism... now they are the party of Crazy!
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
How people feel about a President or government in general is solely based on their wallets. As long as the economy appears to be growing and unemployment does not rise, they're all fat, dumb, and happy.
Things like the deficit and accrued debt are not effecting people directly, but will in the future. The fact is, I've come to realize the average American doesn't worry about it...either because they don't have the IQ to comprehend it, or just they don't care.
they're too busy:
clicking their seat belts putting on their helmets installing sprinkler heads running around their homes checking all the locks on their doors over and over and over checking the labels on all the styrofoam cups they buy making sure all the warning labels remain on their hair dryers checking that their energy used isn't above their neighbors finding 'green energy' appliances and making sure they save that receipt for their government refund clipping coupons for savings making sure their overtime isn't just a waste compared to payroll taxes making sure they DVR American Idol checking their FB
etc etc
just too busy
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
Hopefully the Republican party can return to it's former glory when they actually had IDEAS and stood for something. The GOP used to be the party of Fiscal Conservativism... now they are the party of Crazy!
I doubt they will anytime soon.....the foundation was lost in the public school system
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
62,899,625 OBAMA 60,928,981 ROMNEY 1,275,821 LIBERTARIAN 469,500 GREEN 580,631 OTHER
SO, actual facts are: 126,154,558 VOTED 62.9M voted for Obama 63.3M voted for someone else
If 229M are eligible (as you say), then 166M didn't vote for ANYONE 63.3M didn't vote for Obama, not 167M as you claim
FACTS!
Huh? Whether they chose to vote for somebody other than Obama or they chose not to vote for all, in either case 166 or 167 million eligible voters did NOT vote for Obama.
So, we'll try again - 63.3M eligible voters chose to vote for a candidate other than Obama - 103.7M eligible voters chose not to vote for any candiate. - 167 Million eligible voters DID NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA
Huh? Whether they chose to vote for somebody other than Obama or they chose not to vote for all, in either case 166 or 167 million eligible voters did NOT vote for Obama.
So, we'll try again - 63.3M eligible voters chose to vote for a candidate other than Obama - 103.7M eligible voters chose not to vote for any candiate. - 167 Million eligible voters DID NOT VOTE FOR OBAMA
FACTS!
So that means 62.9M chose to vote for Obama 102.8m chose not to vote for anyone, or it can also be understood as 165M chose not to vote for the REPUBLICAN, the LIBERTARIAN, the GREEN PARTY or the OTHER choice or not to vote. FACTS !
JUST BECAUSE SISSY SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO...BUT HE THINKS IT DOES!!!!! JUST BECAUSE MC1 SAYS SO DOESN'T MAKE IT SO!!!!!
I'm sorry that you have such a low opinion of America's future. Those who vote for one political party when they first get interested in politics... usually late teens to early 20's, generally vote that same way throughout their life.
Do you have facts to back that up or are you just pontificating again??? Anecdotally, I find most people get more fiscally conservative as they get older as they lose their idealism to the reality of life
"Arguing with liberals is like playing chess with a pigeon; no matter how good I am at chess, the pigeon is just going to knock out the pieces, crap on the board, and strut around like it is victorious." - Author Unknown
Do you have facts to back that up or are you just pontificating again??? Anecdotally, I find most people get more fiscally conservative as they get older as they lose their idealism to the reality of life
I read a summary of a study that said 'voter party identification' is set early... usually late teens or early 20's and unless there are extreme changes, will remain mostly stable throughout a voters history. This isn't the report that I read then, but contains some of the same conclusions.
Quoted Text
According to Campbell et al. (1960), party identification is a long-term psychological attachment to a political party). The social psychological theory of party identification presented in The American Voter suggests that party identification develops early in one’s life and is influenced by one’s parents through the process of political socialization. Over time, people form an affective attachment to a particular party, which persists throughout the course of their lives and shapes their views and evaluations of politics. Because party identification colors citizens’ evaluations of issues, candidates, and political events, it plays a fundamental role in their vote choice. Although the model of party identification presented in The American Voter suggests that party identification is highly stable over time, Campbell et al. (1960) carefully note that ‘‘When we examine the evidence on the manner in which party attachment develops and changes during a lifetime of the individual citizen, we find a picture characterized more by stability than by change—not by rigid, immutable fixation on one party rather than the other, but by a persistent adherence and a resistance to contrary influence’’ . Put simply, party identification is stable, emotionally based, and highly resistant to change except when large-scale political events or stressful conditions, such as depressions, occur (Fiorina 1981).
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. John Kenneth Galbraith
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