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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
I mean, yeah, pickin's is slim for lefties right now, but as long as people show up to the polls, it's gonna be okay.
If the GOP wants to do their whole SNK VS Capcom line-up, let them. My concern isn't with the Democratic nomination so much as it's a matter of people actually voting. Republicans are more organized than Democrats and other left-leaning groups, and it's really tiring hearing my left-wing and libertarian hipster buddies brag about how they're too above the system to vote or something.
Meanwhile, Agnes and Betty are going to take the nursing home gals to vote for that nice Huckabee fella because he seems like a good Christian.
edited 10th Aug '15 2:45:09 PM by Aprilla
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That's what I suspect. I'd like to hear from Latino tropers about this.
Borrowing this from Achaemenid. The article he posted earlier suggests that the average black voter favors Clinton
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EDIT: I've also heard some conservative Arkansans down here say that they wouldn't mind voting for HRC as an alternative to the Republican hopefuls. The thinking seems to go that she is a moderate response to what many Southern conservatives perceive to be a pro-corporate abandonment from many mainline Republican candidates. A lot of people down here are severely broke, and Southern conservatives are deeply suspicious of big-money influences from the right, even if those same influences support dilution of the ACA and removal of women's care facilities for religious reasons.
There's also this slightly strange belief that she'd be Bill 2.0. Southern conservatives often make an exception for Bill, and that may be a holdover from the blue dog Democrat mentality that bleeds into Southern politics.
edited 10th Aug '15 2:55:06 PM by Aprilla
At least when I spoke for my uncle, he mentioned he would likely vote Hillary. Main reasons:
- She is a woman
- She is famous
- She is not a Republican
I dunno. Sounds vapid but apparently there is an allure to a female president.
It has always been the prerogative of children and half-wits to point out that the emperor has no clothesJewish?!
AHAHAHAHA! Oh, God, that should make for some fun times in foreign policy! Go, Sanders, go!
There's no such thing as a moderate. There are those that do not know the right thing to do, and those that are too cowardly to step up and do it. The duty of the former is to educate themselves, think hard, and take an option. The duty of the latter is to get off their butts and do it.
edited 10th Aug '15 3:16:24 PM by TheHandle
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.I remember hearing that Sanders gets his support mostly from white working class people, many are older and to them he evokes nostalgia for FDR, Eisenhower, and the like. Also, from comments I have seen on the internet, he seems to draw a lot of support from younger affluent white people, some of my friends will not shut up about the guy on Facebook.
I Bring Doom,and a bit of gloom, but mostly gloom.

It was one day where two women - two black women - interrupted a public speaking event for a man who is so popular and influential among liberals that his name is known and celebrated from coast to coast.
Why on God's green earth is this perceived to be so devastating to either BLM or Sanders?