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Journal by bmetzler on Thursday November 04, 2004 @12:53PM

This was a letter to the editor in the local paper.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, there are 217.8 million voting-age U.S. residents. As of Wednesday morning, George W. Bush had 58,370,970 votes. That means only 27 percent of eligible voters made the effort to support him on Nov. 2.
The sad fact is that just as he's done during the last four years, "The Great Divider" will continue to dismiss, demean and demoralize the 73 percent of voters who did not support him.

According to my calculations, 74 percent of voters also did not support Kerry. So, when it comes to having the "opportunity" to dismiss, demean and demoralize, why should anyone expect that it would be better for Kerry to claim that he was supposed to be supported when he lost by 3.5 million votes? Claim what you want, but Tuesday in America there where apparently 100 million voters who did not care enough about Kerry to actually vote for him. And unlike the writer assumed, this does not mean they won't, or don't support the President.

When it comes to the number of Americans who don't support Bush, I'd say the number is not 73%. We do know that they didn't take a part in the political process and 26% chose not to support Bush. But for those 26% to take credit for the views of 47% of the rest of Americans, I think that is too much to take credit for.

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- Re:Personally... (Score:1)
  
  by bryanthompson ( 627923 ) writes:
  
  I think he jumped the shark with that hampster story... that or the, "I'm john kerry, and i'm... reporting for duty." yikes.
  - Re:Personally... (Score:2, Informative)
    
    by Timex ( 11710 ) writes:
    
    Kerry reported for duty, and he was given his orders: "Shut the heck up and get back to the senate, where you belong. Quit taking money from the citizens of Massachusetts unless you're there doing what you're being paid to do." (As of July of this year, Kerry had missed something in the order of 80% of the meetings and senate votes that he was supposed to attend to, because he was too busy campaigning and hamming it up for the photographers. If I missed 80% of meetings and 80% of my work, I'd be fired in
Likewise (Score:2)

by Marxist Hacker 42 ( 638312 ) * writes:

It's too much for the 27% who did support Bush to take credit for the 47% who didn't show up. All we can really say about them is that neither side motivated them to actually vote- thus their beliefs must be outside of either side.

Personally, my theory is that they're all social conservative, fiscal liberals like myself- and that for my whistle stop tour in 2007 I'm going to need to print up about 100 million voter registration forms.
- Re: (Score:2)
  
  by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) writes:
  
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  - Re:I could probably come up with a good surmise (Score:2)
    
    by Marxist Hacker 42 ( 638312 ) * writes:
    
    I doubt it. I think the people in the middle- the apathetic ones- are significantly different than the election result. I think that there is a *big* reason that they stay home- because the two major parties, and most of the minor parties that they hear about, simply don't support their needs or wants.
    
    A good example of what I'm talking about is abortion. Most people in America are anti-abortion; if you put it up for a national referendum it would be illegal in a heartbeat. And yet, we have 1.3 to 1.6 m
Well (Score:2)

by red5 ( 51324 ) writes:

I'd say that your president is at the helm of the most divided America since that other Republican. When he first won on a technicality I figured fair enough. I didn't really think there was much difference between the GOP and the DNC. Now I've seen what a one party government can do and it really frightens me.

How anybody could in good concise vote for that warmongering corporate whore is beyond my comprehension. I just don't get it.
Screw the 73% (Score:1)

by bryanthompson ( 627923 ) writes:

Screw 'em if they didn't feel like taking part of one of our most important rights and priveledges. They have absolutely no say whatsoever. They didn't take part in the process. Hell, if that 73% is really that pissed off about everything, they could've all voted for nader and it'd have been a landslide. Fuck 'em.
Uhm... (Score:2)

by DaytonCIM ( 100144 ) * writes:

if you hadn't noticed, Bush won. John Kerry is JUST a senator AGAIN.

Let him go, Brent. Let John go... ;)

As far as the article, well... does it matter? President Bush IS President Bush for four more years. And to the divided nation, well... it's not George Bush's fault it's the fault of the DNC AND RNC running dirty, "scare-everyone-as-much-as-possible" campaigns.

My 2cents.
- Here's the new rule (Score:2)
  
  by Red Warrior ( 637634 ) * writes:
  
  (My side won, ergo we get to make the rules :-P)
  Rule #37a Gloating is authorized for not less than 19 days, and not more tha 87, unless sooner extended under Rule #42.

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