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Who will you vote for in the 2012 presidential election...

Who will you vote for in the 2012 Presidential Election?

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Ikari said:
It's mostly sarcasm. Though sometimes after reading posts on this board, I kinda wish it were true.

How different would things look if we only allowed the intelligent and educated to vote?
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I am in support of a basic test on government to be allowed to vote. You don't need to even be literate, just knowledgeable.

In answer to your question, campaign propaganda will be less likely to exploit ignorance since the ignorant could not vote. However there would be a lot less voters.

Sorry I didn't get the sarcasm. I miss that sort of thing sometimes.
 
I am ineligible to vote. If I could vote, however, Obama is the way I would go. Should I vote in the poll?
 
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Amigo said:
You're just saying that because you live in DC. :roll:
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Yeah! How dare he think that a city almost as populated as Boston should get voting rights! How dare he!
 
MadLib said:
I am in support of a basic test on government to be allowed to vote. You don't need to even be literate, just knowledgeable.

In answer to your question, campaign propaganda will be less likely to exploit ignorance since the ignorant could not vote. However there would be a lot less voters.

Sorry I didn't get the sarcasm. I miss that sort of thing sometimes.
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I miss sarcasm most of the time. It's hard to convey properly on internet boards.

It does seem that allowing only the educated to vote would produce several positive gains in terms of campaigning and the caliber of politician we get; though I still couldn't conceive of taking someone's right to vote. The government is controlled by the governed, not just part of the governed.
 
Ikari said:
It does seem that allowing only the educated to vote would produce several positive gains in terms of campaigning and the caliber of politician we get; though I still couldn't conceive of taking someone's right to vote. The government is controlled by the governed, not just part of the governed.
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Educated in what way? Must have a masters to vote? Do you think that means they'd know anything about politics or government or policy?
 
Ikari said:
It's mostly sarcasm. Though sometimes after reading posts on this board, I kinda wish it were true.

How different would things look if we only allowed the intelligent and educated to vote?
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Why do you hate my right to vote?
 
Romney has my vote.
 
Redress said:
No ****. To equalize the extreme far right that the republican party has swung, we just about need to run a full our communist.
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Don't you want to vote for a candidate who is pro-choice, anti-gun, has raised taxes and enacted a healthcare program? Don't you want a liberal candidate like that? If so, vote for Romney the liberal.
 
johnny_rebson said:
Don't you want to vote for a candidate who is pro-choice, anti-gun, has raised taxes and enacted a healthcare program? Don't you want a liberal candidate like that? If so, vote for Romney the liberal.
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Actually only 2 of the 4, and one of those while I like in theory I do not like how either did it(health care), so really only 1 of 4.
 
johnny_rebson said:
Don't you want to vote for a candidate who is pro-choice, anti-gun, has raised taxes and enacted a healthcare program? Don't you want a liberal candidate like that? If so, vote for Romney the liberal.
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Obama thanks you for your support-he hopes purists like you try to convince others who want a grand inquisitor for president that they should stay home so they have four more years to whine about Obama
 
TurtleDude said:
Obama thanks you for your support-he hopes purists like you try to convince others who want a grand inquisitor for president that they should stay home so they have four more years to whine about Obama
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now that we don't have a pretend conservative in the executive branch, pretend conservative politicians are pretending to care about spending

why are you in a hurry to see this ruse end? When the pretend conservative Bush was in office, he could spend anything he wanted, and the pretend politicians would pretend all that excess spending was conservative. Wasn't that just a wonderful world of make believe?

Hey, maybe if we pretend that Romney is a conservative, we can also pretend that his appointees will be conservative. I see many conservatives still pretend Reagan was the perfect conservative, ignoring the ridiculous spending of his administration is one thing, but they seem to forget about that Kennedy selection too.

So you get that everyone. Make sure to vote conservative, we would hate to lose by seeing Obama overspend and appoint some Kennedy clone to the bench.
 
I would have appreciated more poll options. Like, "I am not legally allowed to vote in the US Presidentials, but would vote for candidate X".
 
Arbo said:
Educated in what way? Must have a masters to vote? Do you think that means they'd know anything about politics or government or policy?
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I'm setting the level at PhD.
 
Arbo said:
Educated in what way? Must have a masters to vote? Do you think that means they'd know anything about politics or government or policy?
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Educated in that they need to demonstrate at least a basic knowledge of how government works at the level they are voting on.
 
Ikari said:
It's mostly sarcasm. Though sometimes after reading posts on this board, I kinda wish it were true.

How different would things look if we only allowed the intelligent and educated to vote?
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Good luck with that. How about just requiring that they need to be smart enough to acquire a legitimate photo ID and show that before voting?
 
Porchev said:
Good luck with that. How about just requiring that they need to be smart enough to acquire a legitimate photo ID and show that before voting?
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Nah, I think I'm gonna push the PhD requirement.
 
Ikari said:
Nah, I think I'm gonna push the PhD requirement.
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given the political inclinations of our PhD's, you may not want that :).


as for me, I'd prefer a simple poll test. basic stuff like "what are the three branches of government".
 
cpwill said:
given the political inclinations of our PhD's, you may not want that :).


as for me, I'd prefer a simple poll test. basic stuff like "what are the three branches of government".
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There should also be basic questions that pertain to the certain election. Like "What are the powers of the president?" and "How many people fill the Senate?"
 
ARealConservative said:
now that we don't have a pretend conservative in the executive branch, pretend conservative politicians are pretending to care about spending

why are you in a hurry to see this ruse end? When the pretend conservative Bush was in office, he could spend anything he wanted, and the pretend politicians would pretend all that excess spending was conservative. Wasn't that just a wonderful world of make believe?

Hey, maybe if we pretend that Romney is a conservative, we can also pretend that his appointees will be conservative. I see many conservatives still pretend Reagan was the perfect conservative, ignoring the ridiculous spending of his administration is one thing, but they seem to forget about that Kennedy selection too.

So you get that everyone. Make sure to vote conservative, we would hate to lose by seeing Obama overspend and appoint some Kennedy clone to the bench.
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purists may have use in academia or on debate boards but in the real world they are often worse than the opposition
 
MadLib said:
Hah. Yeah. Since it is the Democrats who are anti-science. Oh wait...
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when it comes to things like economics or crime control they tend to reject facts and empirical evidence and go for emotobabbling or "Fairness" in contradiction to what actually works
 
TurtleDude said:
when it comes to things like economics or crime control they tend to reject facts and empirical evidence and go for emotobabbling or "Fairness" in contradiction to what actually works
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That's where this forum comes in. I am more moderate on crime control than other liberals, but I'm pretty economically liberal.
 
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