Posted on 10/01/2008 5:48:46 PM PDT by impeachedrapist
[...with the] presidential elections just weeks away, there are unprecedented efforts to turn out young voters and indications that they are paying closer attention to the campaigns than they have in years.
...at least 2.6 million new voters between the ages of 18 and 29 have been registered – the vast majority via the internet.
The New Voters Project has registered 347,000 youth voters in swing states, including Colorado, Oregon, Iowa, New Mexico, Nevada and Wisconsin. At the University of Iowa, the group is registering 500 students a day...
Anecdotal and quantitative evidence suggest that Democrats and independent groups that support Democrats have done a better job than Republicans at registering new voters in key battleground states. In a normal year, the difficulty in getting the newly registered to the polls might mitigate this advantage. But anti-Bush passions on the left are running exceedingly high, making it more likely that marginal voters -- people who rarely or never vote -- will turn out this year.
That could have been my assessment four years ago. What happened? A backlash against the media and Democrats like I don’t recall seeing in my lifetime. After losing the general election by a half million votes just four years earlier, President Bush won just over 3 million votes and captured 286 electoral votes.
Wanna argue my last point, that the media wasn’t as bad four years ago as it is today? Think again. We had a North Vietnamese war hero (idolized in a portrait in the Communist country) on videotape smearing his country and her military during a time of war. About 250 of his wartime colleagues, including a Medal of Honor winner, held a press conference denouncing him in May 2004. They were virtually ignored, and had to raise their own funds just to be heard.
Not only are McCain/Palin not losing right now, they’re still in a stronger position than the Obamessiah.
The only way Obamessiah/Biden win in November is if we’re all foolish enough to buy this Dem-created and media-driven nonsense. After the Palin selection they know they can’t realistically win, due to a fired up conservative base. Their only chance is to depress conservative turnout. And based on the garbage I’ve seen on this forum – a lot from folks who should know better – I’d say they’re at least partially succeeding.
To all you hysterical drama queens and handwringers apparently suffering from amnesia and political bipolar disorder, I leave you with the words of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger [sort of] at the 2004 GOP convention:
Don’t be a girlie man… vote McCain/Palin!!
Are you a dem? Many of your comments "clear up" situations in favor of dems. ( FreeRepublic does allow liberals if they're upfront ...) Just wondering. Please don't take offense.
Sure. Why not?
Why do you continue to badger me?
Anyone who isn’t a troll already knows I voice my support for McCain-Palin here frequently, not that my vote matters a whit, living in California.
There, now all you had to do was say that up front, now that wasn’t hard.
On the other hand, blaming President Bush for the ‘roots’ of this problem, as you did in your original post, is completely inaccurate. The ‘roots’ were in Carter’s CRA, and that was over two decades before W took office. Expansion of government interference in loan policies was unequivocally clear in the Clinton years.
Simpsons have been on for so many years with so many really high quality scripts. Superb writing with a dry wit poking fun at the excesses of our society. Krusty’s the best!!!
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Something for you to read
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