[TheBigB]

Here's a great new thread over there by "DerekG":

This has been bothering me for several weeks. I always believed that the reason why more people don't vote in presidential elections is because both Democrat and Republican candidates are bearly distinguishable from each other (Carter/Ford, Clinton/Dole, Gore/Bush), but HOW IN THE HELL did a moral man like McGovern, who was probably the last liberal Democrat to run, lose so [GD] badly to Richard Nixon? I wasn't born until 1982, so I'm asking others: Weren't there enough Americans who cared about the direction the country was headed to get their ass out and vote?

I love it. :) This is along the lines of Pauline Kael saying nobody -she- knew voted for Reagan so how the hell did he get elected?

Some of these have to be put-ons. Nobody can be as dumb as they appear.

[fml]

--Some of these have to be put-ons. Nobody can be as dumb as they appear.--


Wrong, many are actually worse - they're evil too.

[Jaded]

Yes they can be that dumb. I know several people who swear that NPR is the TRUTH and that all main stream media is run/directed by those "hateful right-wingers". One in particular who thinks Sheila Jackson Lee is the only qualified person for president.

It boggles the mind.

[BRO68]

Weren't there enough Americans who cared about the direction the country.....

Do a Google for "Thomas Eagleton" and "electric shock therapy"

[Verginius Rufus]

Actually, I think the Pauline Kael quote is from after the 1972 election (she couldn't understand how Nixon won because no one she knew had voted for him). Same difference.