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Re: Americans Favor Jobs Plan Proposals, Including Taxing Rich

By: clo in FFFT | Recommend this post (0)
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Decomp,

"THE #2 CANDIDATE OFTEN CANNOT WIN.

Clinton & GWB WERE elections that mattered.

Besides your "passive" vote & mine for the best choice IMO, of the top two, lets talk about the MILLIONS that don't even VOTE!

These "Americans", IMO don't even deserve to be called "Americans".
At least you & I vote!

100 Million US-Americans Don't Vote

Posted by Sonja Bonin in US Domestic and Cultural Issues on Monday, March 17. 2008

While the American primaries make the headlines on a daily basis even in our Swiss newspapers, more than a hundred million Americans usually don't vote,

which means about 40% of eligible voters forego their right to elect who's to become (arguably) the most powerful political leader in the world. 
Find an interesting "mini-movie" about these missing voters here.

http://atlanticreview.org/archives/1036-100-Million-US-Americans-Dont-Vote.html





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Re: Americans Favor Jobs Plan Proposals, Including Taxing Rich
By: Decomposed in FFFT
Thu, 22 Sep 11 12:22 AM 		Msg. 33937 of 65535

re: "By the way, I agree, chances are my vote has never and never will decide a public election, I live in NY."

You know, clo, in this day and age, there isn't usually a "top two." It's usually a top ONE - with the winner identified well before the election.

If the goal is to vote for someone who can win, why vote at all, when you already know with a near certainty who will win? THE #2 CANDIDATE OFTEN CANNOT WIN.

This is the flaw in your reasoning.

If Americans do not rebel... and I mean SOON... against this new policy of voting for whoever pollsters like, Democracy will be as good as dead. Democracy needs people to vote for who they think is BEST.

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