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Out of the Blue

[Nov 05, 2008, 01:00 am ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

What? We know who is going to be the next president without recounts and court decisions? I guess that's democracy FTW.

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135. Re: Out of the Blue Nov 5, 2008, 20:16 Prez
 
I swear the republicans could have run a Manson\Bundie ticket and still got 50 million people to vote for them

Interesting observation. But the one thing you may be missing is that in recent years, Americans are as likely to cast a vote against a candidate as they are to cast one for a candidate. Coupled with the ridiculously rigid 2-party system we are inexplicably saddled with, you end up seeing weird things like people voting Bush into a second term with a popularity rating below 50%. A great deal of those votes were against Kerry, not for Bush. I really don't feel like detailing the myriad reasons why Kerry was such a terrible candidate; suffice it to say he was bad enough to get Bush into office for a second term! Likewise, a sizable portion of the 50 some-odd million votes McCain got were most certainly votes against Obama, who gave most moderate to conservative people all the legitimate reasons they needed to NOT want to see him in office.

Having said that, you are spot on about how polarized the US is. It's as bad as I've ever seen it, and quite possibly as bad as it's ever been. The media plays no small part in that - they LOVE keeping Americans at odds with one another however they can - it allows them to maintain relevancy and ratings by simply stirring the pot at the right time.

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