The groups you're referring to are a very vocal, very active, and (somewhat slim) minority. Unfortunately, they represent a majority of the actual voters in those areas. Complacency and apathy rule the American mindset--as shown by actual voter registration numbers, and actual turnout of registered voters over the past couple of decades: 'We, the People' just don't care anymore. This allows groups like this to motivate its members and get candidates elected based on their beliefs. The only way to change that mindset it to convince the non-voting public that their votes do count for something. That's going to be very hard to do, but it looks like there's going to be a record turnout this year.
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Vivec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So then..what happens when the entire MidWest seems to support these > views? Isn't that a huge cross section of the US? > That's more than 15% isn't it? > > In fact during the Bush campaign the 'faith based' campaigning was > specifically to target this group. Why would Presidential Candidates > constantly target this group if it wasn't a powerful voting base, i.e. > a very large number of people that ascribe to these 'crazy' views? > > You're saying that it is a minority, but the BBC news, Fox News and > others keep showing and saying that it is not. So far from having some > American Bias, the views are formed from the available information. > > The available information says that what is happening in this election > is not normal- there seems to be a very active fight to CHANGE the > pattern of voting. If there is a fight to Change the pattern of > voting, you have to be changing FROM something. And the FROM something > involves many issues, but there seems to be this large cross section > that I mentioned where the issues that matter to them are Faith > Based/Crazies/Prejudicial/Fear based. > > 2008/10/21 G Money <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > President of American Values....i'm laughing my ass off....and you should > be > > too. > > > > Abortion is important. Same sex marriage is important too. One is a > question > > of life and personal privacy, the other of equal rights. These issues > bring > > out the crazies, true, but they also need to be discussed and weighed by > the > > 85+% of Americans who are reasonable. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:275816 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
