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1 posted on 09/14/2008 9:40:59 AM PDT by jddqr
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Hopefully, they will be lined up at Game Stop instead of the voting booth.


2 posted on 09/14/2008 9:43:56 AM PDT by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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Rove, you magnificent bastard!! Who else could have thought of such a brilliant plan!!


3 posted on 09/14/2008 9:44:00 AM PDT by Clintons Are White Trash (Lynn Stewart, Helen Thomas, Rosie ODonnell, Maureen Dowd - The Axis of Ugly)
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Obama’s plan to fight the WOT is create an 80th level Wizard who will cast the spell “ Power Word Kill” on Al Queda members. :)


4 posted on 09/14/2008 9:44:23 AM PDT by yongin (Obama is bitter about Veterans & Elderly Folks)
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People may laugh, but I don’t think this is so far fetched. One of his biggest voting blocks is the under 30 crowd. It’s not a stretch to think that video games are more important to many people than voting.


5 posted on 09/14/2008 9:45:40 AM PDT by DouglasKC
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The ONLY age demographic in which “The One” leads is 18-29.

And we know how short their attention spans are. Remember the “youth vote” from ‘68 and ‘72?

Sure, they’ll cut class to go see the Obamassiah (as long as there’s a rock concert before hand), but that’s a far cry from getting off thier butts and outta their basements to do things like register, and then actually go vote.


6 posted on 09/14/2008 9:46:47 AM PDT by PhilosopherStones
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Most of the guys I know that play WoW are conservative. So, you fail at humor.


7 posted on 09/14/2008 9:48:02 AM PDT by arderkrag (Libertarian Nutcase (Political Compass Coordinates: 9.00, -2.62 - www.politicalcompass.org))
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Perhaps polling places will be set up in the World of Warcraft. The question is: How many EVs will be allocated to Warcraft?
8 posted on 09/14/2008 9:48:22 AM PDT by Warlord
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What is a a “Lick King”?

Mick Jagger?


12 posted on 09/14/2008 9:50:33 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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My staunch conservative sister and brother-in-law are addicted to “Warcrack” too. I don't think that's just a game for liberals.
13 posted on 09/14/2008 9:53:49 AM PDT by TKDietz
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The people it might really suppress are the Ron Paul weirdos, although I don’t know how [or that] it would affect the race.


16 posted on 09/14/2008 9:56:22 AM PDT by KayEyeDoubleDee (const Tag &referenceToConstTag)
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All Obama has to do is make WoW the 58th state, and he can send them absentee ballots.


18 posted on 09/14/2008 9:57:38 AM PDT by VanDeKoik (Stand Up For Chuck 2008!)
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ping


19 posted on 09/14/2008 10:04:13 AM PDT by onedoug ( Barracuda!)
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Well if they release it at midnightlikem some of the gmes are released and make them stand in line and all of that then there is a good chance that them staying up too late will make them sleep too long into the day to make it to the polls!


21 posted on 09/14/2008 10:05:58 AM PDT by chris_bdba
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No. I think you would be surprised at the number of conservatives who play.

- signed, basement dweller.


22 posted on 09/14/2008 10:10:20 AM PDT by jbstrick ( I've never been to heaven, but I've been to Oklahoma)
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There is an 19-year-old in my family who is a big Obama supporter. Well, I should qualify that. Not a big Obama supporter in terms of volunteering for the campaign or giving money or anything like that. Just that he's 19 and McCain is this "old man" from the past and so obviously this Obama dude is more hip by comparison. Our next family get-together is next Sunday so I'll have to see where he weighs in on Sarah Palin.

Anyway, at the last family barbeque, we were discussing the campaign and some of us were needling him because for all his talk of voting for Obama, he isn't registered to vote yet. He just shrugged and said he'll get around to it eventually but I'm pretty much sure that it will keep "slipping his mind" until it is too late. I'm certainly not going to go out of my way to tell him when the deadline is either.

But this kid is typical of many young people old enough, but not mature enough, to vote. His life revolves around the moment and whether there is a "party" going on that night. He's a big video game freak too, including World of Warcraft or whatever that online game is called.

Anyway, I think it's a safe bet that Obama is going to be one disappointed fellow on Election night when he realizes that a large portion of his base never even got out to vote. Every election cycle, much is made of the "young vote", but each and every time, they never quite turn out in the numbers to make a difference.

Even in 1968, when the youth of America were radicalized like no other time in our history, young voters mostly stayed home while their arch-nemesis Richard Nixon slipped into office easily.

26 posted on 09/14/2008 10:14:47 AM PDT by SamAdams76 (I am 92 days away from outliving Sam Sheppard)
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You know, World of Warcraft and Diebold are owned by the same parent company. Draw your own conclusions.

/s

31 posted on 09/14/2008 10:21:35 AM PDT by matt1234
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Actually, Sarah has depressed my WoW playing.


32 posted on 09/14/2008 10:22:39 AM PDT by kanawa (http://www.canadalovessarah.ca/)
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Hopefully the fools will also keep listening to “Rage Against The Machine” and stay away from the elections process altogether.


34 posted on 09/14/2008 10:25:27 AM PDT by Prole (Please pray for the families of Chris and Channon. May God always watch over them.)
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I have four level 70 characters in World of Warcraft. My wife has three.

We’re both conservative.

And we both WILL be at the polls on November 4. :)

}:-)4


35 posted on 09/14/2008 10:25:55 AM PDT by Moose4 (http://moosedroppings.wordpress.com -- Because 20 million self-important blogs just aren't enough.)
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It would not surprise me in the least if a lawsuit came down from the DNC to try and compell Vivendi/Blizzard (the publisher behind WoW) to postpone this release.

Anyway, someone who puts higher priority on a video game than voting maybe is not someone that belongs in the process anyway, regardless of political view.


36 posted on 09/14/2008 10:28:04 AM PDT by SwedishConservative
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