> > > People are running for an office, but it's barely worth
> > > my time to vote at all. I'm certainly not going to
> > > do any research on the candidates. (Think Dogcatcher, or
> > > the Board of Directors of that company you have one share
> > > in, ...) In that case, I routinely vote for women.
> > > (Since one can almost always tell candidates' genders
> > > from their names.) I don't usually extend this to
> > > ethnicities, but I guess I'm less likely to vote
> > > for "Reginald Chumley III" than for "John Smith".
> > > Although that's not really ethnic; the former could
> > > have chosen to go by "RJ Chumley", after all.
> > > ---David
> > what i said doesn't make me a bigot, ronn, just someone who would
> > like to see affirmative action at the presidential level. when
whites
> > votes for whites, to PREVENT a black man from being elected, THAT
> > is racist...
> > jon
> I don't always agree with Ronn, but count me as one who doesn't
> believe that
> affirmative action is the right track. It's the old two wrongs don't
> make a
> right saw, IMO.
> That said, I don't see anything wrong with considering the
> perspective that
> an African-American (or a woman or a Hispanic etc.) might have as
> _one_ of
> the criteria I'm looking for in a Presidential candidate.
> Right now though, I'd vote for Howdy Doody before I'd vote for anyone
> that
> called themselves a Republican.
> Doug
i would vote for al sharpton, jesse jackson, or even ron paul over so
called maverick republican, john mc cain. at least in this election we
finally have a democratic candidate who will represent voters over
special interests...
jon
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