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2008 voting rate down as older whites stayed home
AP via Breitbart ^
| July 20, 2009
| HOPE YEN
Posted on 07/20/2009 11:17:06 AM PDT by kddid
For all the attention generated by last year's presidential race, census figures show the share of eligible voters who actually went to the polls in November declined from 2004.
According to the data, more older whites opted to stay home compared with 2004, citing little interest in supporting either Barack Obama or John McCain.
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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 2008review; elections; mccain; seniors; whitevote
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posted on
07/20/2009 11:17:06 AM PDT
by
kddid
To: kddid
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posted on
07/20/2009 11:17:42 AM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
To: kddid
RINOs and Liberals are not interesting to conservatives...
3
posted on
07/20/2009 11:18:33 AM PDT
by
wac3rd
(80 Carter/Obama 08)
To: vpintheak
Get off my damn lawn!
(lol)
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posted on
07/20/2009 11:18:35 AM PDT
by
SIDENET
("Join me or die. Can you do any less?" -Mr. Sparkle)
To: kddid
“According to the data, more older whites opted to stay home compared with 2004, citing little interest in supporting either Barack Obama or John McCain.”
No kidding. Let’s nominate Mitt now. That will bring them back in droves. (sarc)
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posted on
07/20/2009 11:18:42 AM PDT
by
Luke21
(If it's the Asspress, it's usually a lie.)
To: kddid
But the data also showed that dead people, cartoon characters, and citizens of foreign nations voted for Obama in record numbers.
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posted on
07/20/2009 11:19:33 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world, and they are all out to get me.)
To: GonzoGOP
Maybe they were intimidated.
There were lots of reports of blacks driving around and making a big show of writing down addresses of people with McCain signs in their yards.
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posted on
07/20/2009 11:21:45 AM PDT
by
MrB
(Go Galt now, save Bowman for later)
To: vpintheak
Thanks you old coots! I voted for the RINO McCain. But I would not do so again. The GOP has to understand that the conservative base, and the old coots who make up a part of that base, are not willing to show up and vote for someone who is distasteful.
I'll vote for a Conservative next time, or I will stay home. And don't blame me if Obama gets a second term -- blame the Republican Establishment for pushing Bob Dole, John McCain, and Mitt Romney. There's your problem right there.
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posted on
07/20/2009 11:23:24 AM PDT
by
ClearCase_guy
(I don't believe anything anyone says about anything anymore.)
To: kddid
I admit I wasn't enthusiastic about voting for McCain, even though I did. His inept campaign didn't make GOTV any easier either, I'm sure.
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posted on
07/20/2009 11:24:35 AM PDT
by
colorado tanker
("Lastly, I'd like to apologize for America's disproportionate response to Pearl Harbor . . . ")
To: Luke21
No kidding. Let’s nominate Mitt now. That will bring them back in droves. (sarc)
Mitt! The man of passion!, He will fire up the base! With double the positions on each issue, Mitt will get double the votes!
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posted on
07/20/2009 11:24:41 AM PDT
by
ansel12
(Romney (guns)"instruments of destruction with the sole purpose of hunting down and killing people")
To: kddid
Can you blame them, with the Black Panthers People’s Party providing “security” at the polling places.
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posted on
07/20/2009 11:25:12 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(AGWT is very robust with respect to data. All observations confirm it at the 100% confidence level.)
To: MrB
Being from Cook County (Chicago) i can say from personal experience that any time you put up a Republican campaign sign in the front yard it was torn out usually within a day or two. I had some fun and smeared mine with Vaseline so they would at least think twice before pulling out the next one.
Obama cheats. That is why 2010 is so important. If we don't take back congress there will be no way to stop the rampant cheating by ACORN and the Black Panther Liberation Army or whatever the thugs are calling themselves these days.
12
posted on
07/20/2009 11:26:59 AM PDT
by
GonzoGOP
(There are millions of paranoid people in the world, and they are all out to get me.)
To: vpintheak
Wonder how they are going to feel about that non-vote as Obama proceeds to gut medicare.
To: kddid
Bingo!
Here is the dirty little secret the RNC refuses to admit to.
Their attempts(McCain, Rudy, Mitt, Huckster) at putting a RINO on the ballot(McCain) succeeded and those who decided it was “a bridge too far” to vote for someone like McAmnesty stayed home.
And then there are the idiots on FreeRepublic who would rather blame those who were basically disenfranchised by the selection of McCain instead of the real problem: the RNC leadership and elites. Pull your head out of the sand.
To: Lonesome in Massachussets
I wish this guy would have stood in my way to vote.
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posted on
07/20/2009 11:28:42 AM PDT
by
TSgt
(Extreme vitriol and rancorous replies served daily. - Mike W USAF)
To: kddid; All
Let’s put the blame where it belongs, Feminist women:
“Unmarried women supported Barack Obama by a 70-to-29 percent margin, and they voted for Democratic House candidates by a similar margin — 64-to-29 percent.”
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posted on
07/20/2009 11:28:52 AM PDT
by
donna
(1,350 Palestinians, guests of Iraq's Saddam, to resettle in southern California in fall '09.)
To: kddid
Interesting.
But, you know, I can’t imagine a McCain White House would be as bad or worse than The Obama White House.
McCain wouldn’t be Reagan, but he sure as Hell wouldn’t be a socialist as is Mr. Obama-Jama.
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posted on
07/20/2009 11:29:20 AM PDT
by
RexBeach
To: kddid
Uninformed yutes and colored people got us in the situation we’re in now.
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posted on
07/20/2009 11:29:35 AM PDT
by
Sig Sauer P220
(Forget going Galt. Its time to go Braveheart.)
To: kddid
Blame the Liberal Media for depressing GOP voters from turning out.
The Liberal Media needs to be destroyed.
To: ClearCase_guy
Yeah! I hope you know I was kidding in the earlier post. :-)
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posted on
07/20/2009 11:29:57 AM PDT
by
vpintheak
(Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked. Prov. 25:26)
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