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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: bijou on September 21, 2008, 03:10:24 PM
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Just a couple of responses, but the second of them is funny. First the OP:
SheilaT (1000+ posts) Sun Sep-21-08 03:05 PM
Original message
Remember Super Tuesday?
Advertisements [?]Remember how the biggest part of the story was the incredible turnout on the Democratic side? Thousands upon thousands of voters, many of them completely new to the process. But the story of the huge turnout got pretty well lost in the duel between Hillary and Obama, which is unfortunate. People who take the time to show up for a primary/caucus will almost always vote in the general election.
Kansas, for instance, had literally ten times as many voters in its caucuses as in 2004 (130,000 to 1300). And a significant percentage of them were under age 25. And the weather was very bad that night, with voters waiting for up to three hours in sleet, snow, and freezing rain to get inside the caucus locations. Several days later, on a mild and pleasant Saturday, only 20,000 Republicans could be bothered to turn out for their caucus. In Kansas.
I think there's a possibility of a huge landslide for Obama. Not that we can ease up on working to get him elected.
Living in an alternate universe obviously. LWolf (1000+ posts) Sun Sep-21-08 04:01 PM
Response to Original message
2. Yes. I remember my furious despair.
Despair that, after 2 primaries, 2 caucuses, and the Michigan and Florida messes, when the rest of the nation got a turn, there was no one left on the ballot I wanted to be president. That I, and my vote, were left behind months before my May 20th primary.
Why would you remind me of that at this late date?
I'm supposed to be focused on wanting Obama to win, not on the corrupt mechanism that left us with a months-long race and gender war that is still playing out with the selection of Palin.
link (http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7136144)
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I had no idea 1300 x 10 is 130,000. I think I've been screwed a bunch of times.