that's a VERY good point. A minority can very quickly become a majority, when the populace stand by idly and LET them.
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 10:41 AM, morgan l <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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:275817 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
