Text 8523, 56 rader
Skriven 2005-02-03 16:08:00 av Darryl Perry (1:106/324)
   Kommentar till text 8514 av John Hull (1:106/324)
Ärende: Re: Iraqi Vote
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On 02-03-05, John Hull said...
 
JH> 02 Feb 05 23:13, Darryl Perry wrote to John Hull:
JH> 
JH>  DP> On 02-02-05, John Hull said...
JH> 
JH>  JH>> Do you have a problem understanding plain english?  You, me, Stan, 
JH>  JH>> and the rest here are all part of a small minority who take an 
JH>  JH>> active interest in politics.  We all voted.  Nobody said 
JH>  JH>> otherwise.  That does NOT CHANGE the fact that American voters have 
JH>  JH>> been apathetic for decades, right up to and including this last 
JH>  JH>> election.
JH> 
JH>  DP> Of course not.  I know full whell what Stan was saying.  Are you
JH>  DP> understanding what I'm saying?  I will not have Stan, you or 
JH>  DP> anybody else
JH>  DP> inflate the importance of the election process happening in Iraq 
JH>  DP> by
JH>  DP> disparaging the importance that we Americans have for our own 
JH>  DP> voting
JH>  DP> process.  Even you say that the voters in the US came out in 
JH>  DP> record numbers
JH>  DP> to vote, but to hear Stan tell it, the US is just an apathectic 
JH>  DP> bunch of
JH>  DP> spoiled brats that take our liberties for granted.  I'm hear to 
JH>  DP> tell you
JH>  DP> that that just ain't the case.
JH> 
JH> And just because you say so doesn't change the facts of numerous surveys t
JH> are done every election cycle.  Americans are far more apathetic than othe
JH> and there is evidence to back that up.  Its in the news EVERY ELECTION CYC
JH> 
JH> I think its great that numbers were up this last time, but don't be fooled
JH> it.  According to surveys, a good percentage of those people were voting 
JH> against somebody instead of for somebody.  That isn't a healthy sign.  It 
JH> shows that people don't have an understanding of the candidates positions 
JH> don't trust the parties to nominate suitable candidates.  That was in the 
JH> too, or did you miss that as well?

Are you going to pick apart how each person voted John?  There is no way to
vote 'against' one candidate other than by not voting for him or her all
together.  All the times I voted, there were never options to vote AGAINST a
a candidate, just options FOR a candidate.  So it goes to reason that if a
person voted for a candidate, then they voted FOR that candidate, and not
against another.

But then maybe that is just what all those lazy Americans were doing after
all when they chose not to vote.  Maybe they were using their voting power to
show that they weren't happy with ANY of the candidates equally.

Gryphon, aka Darryl Perry
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