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Offline thundley4

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Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« on: February 09, 2012, 11:41:03 AM »
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gregtownsand    Thu Feb 9, 2012, 01:08 AM
 
Our biggest hurdle? The USA is mostly a simplistic rednecked nation!

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Honestly, how many people do you meet out there who are really informed on issues? Most people can barely tell you who their own Senators and Congress members are. How many people out there know about the fillibuster? How many can even tell you how long congressional terms are?

I work with a lot of people from Canada and when you hear how much more informed they are on issues that concern them it is mind boggling.

When you consider that we have all this access to news and other media it is astounding that the average American can be so stupid. This board represents a very small minority of informed Americans. This is true of both Democrats and Republicans in general. If you don't believe me ask the people you work with some basic civics questions.

I think the Republican sleezeballs like Karl Rove are more aware of this than Democratic strategists. They seem to know how to exploit trashy issues like flag burning, and Willie Horton, better.

Every election the biggest obstacle for Democrats in my opinion is. The redneck nature of much of the electorate.
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21. Looking at HS graduation rates, this argument doesn't work very well

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The group with the lowest on-time HS graduation rate is African Americans, who are heavily concentrated in cities. In 2008, the graduation rate for black males was 47 percent. In NYC it was 25 percent. The national average is about 75 percent.

http://www.thegrio.com/specials/making-the-grade/grim-graduate-rates-for-black-males-highlight-racial-gap-in-schools.php

In overwhelmingly white and heavily rural West Virginia, the graduation rate is about 80 percent. That's higher than the national average.

http://www.wvpubcast.org/newsarticle.aspx?id=15930

West Virginia has a rate higher than the national average, it contains no large cities, and it has gone red every election since 2000.

African-Americans, on the other hand, are the least-educated group in the country and also by far the most Democratic, voting 95 percent for Obama in 2008 and about 88 percent for Kerry in 2004.

BTW the state with the lowest HS graduation rate is Nevada, which went blue last time and probably will again this year.

http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/8712517.html


Ouch. Obama voters are uneducated and stooooopid.

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23. Assuming high school graduation means something,

which is not an assumption with which I agree generally (unfortunately.)

Ouch. Now you slam the liberal educators just to try and defend liberal voters?
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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2012, 11:45:12 AM »
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Our biggest hurdle? The USA is mostly a simplistic rednecked nation!

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Honestly, how many people do you meet out there who are really informed on issues?
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Translation.....how many people do you meet out there who think just like we do.
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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2012, 11:55:31 AM »
"All I need to know in life I learned from a social worker. She showed me how to vote a straight democrat election ticket", Democrat voter.
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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2012, 12:24:03 PM »
Quote from: thundley4 on February 09, 2012, 11:41:03 AM
  http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002287134
 

Ouch. Obama voters are uneducated and stooooopid.

Ouch. Now you slam the liberal educators just to try and defend liberal voters?

My my my, what a wonderful find. ^5 for this one. This is too rich.

 
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In overwhelmingly white and heavily rural West Virginia, the graduation rate is about 80 percent. That's higher than the national average

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Our biggest hurdle? The USA is mostly a simplistic rednecked nation!

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Honestly, how many people do you meet out there who are really informed on issues?
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It would appear greg has just found out about Pownership, being driven like a butt mounted wheelbarrow.

I have to row over to see how this one turns out.  Dang.  Say it ain't so. 
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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2012, 12:26:49 PM »
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1. This is not far-fetched. Look at the way the vote is split.

If you take the white vote out, you see no Republicans winning, almost anywhere.

This is a simple fact, not a racist statement.

To which I say...

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1. This is not far-fetched. Look at the way the vote is split.

If you take the black vote out, you see no Democrats winning, almost anywhere.

This is a simple fact, not a racist statement.
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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2012, 12:27:30 PM »
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Our biggest hurdle? The USA is mostly a simplistic rednecked nation!

Oh really.

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When you consider that we have all this access to news and other media it is astounding that the average American can be so stupid. This board represents a very small minority of informed Americans.

Informed??   :rotf: :lmao: :rotf: :lmao:  :mental:

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Every election the biggest obstacle for Democrats in my opinion is. The redneck nature of much of the electorate.

Two sentence fragments in a row.  FAIL!!

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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2012, 12:39:12 PM »
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1. This is not far-fetched. Look at the way the vote is split.

If you take the black vote out, you see no Democrats winning, almost anywhere.

This is a simple fact, not a racist statement.

Exactly. The Democrats are the party of racists, both white and black.
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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #7 on: February 09, 2012, 12:49:44 PM »
Here is the last post, so far.

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77. If the U.S. is "mostly a simplistic rednecked nation!" how did Obama get elected?

If we win the election then the electorate is informed but if we lose then it is 'rednecked'? Sorry you can't have it both ways I will agree the population is very uninformed about our government. The main fault of this, from my experience, are teachers who are just as uninformed as their students on the subject. 

Might want to step away from that fan. 
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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #8 on: February 09, 2012, 04:01:24 PM »
Watching DU is like watching a circular firing squad. Everyone there is bound to get hit.
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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #9 on: February 09, 2012, 04:46:53 PM »
Not an hour goes by that the DUchebag pots do not call the kettle black.

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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #10 on: February 09, 2012, 04:55:40 PM »
The bestest post in the thread.

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2. Please, please, please, before you start calling other Americans stupid...

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...spell "obstacle" correctly.

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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #11 on: February 09, 2012, 04:57:57 PM »
4 am. to 6 am at the country store.... Republican voters/workers are getting gas and coffee and heading to work. Obama/democrat voters are buying condoms/beer/wine/papers/blunts and finally heading home after a night of partying.
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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #12 on: February 09, 2012, 05:20:00 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on February 09, 2012, 04:57:57 PM
4 am. to 6 am at the country store.... Republican voters/workers are getting gas and coffee and heading to work. Obama/democrat voters are buying condoms/beer/wine/papers/blunts and finally heading home after a night of partying.

Now ain't that the truth.  ^5
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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #13 on: February 09, 2012, 05:24:29 PM »
...spell "obstacle" correctly....obs-sty-cull....how'd I do?
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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #14 on: February 09, 2012, 05:28:06 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on February 09, 2012, 05:24:29 PM
...spell "obstacle" correctly....obs-sty-cull....how'd I do?


Very good, Johnny, you get an "A" for participating so well!

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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #15 on: February 09, 2012, 05:33:42 PM »
Quote from: DumbAss Tanker on February 09, 2012, 05:28:06 PM
Very good, Johnny, you get an "A" for participating so well!

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Just an A? I think I deserve an A+.
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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #16 on: February 09, 2012, 05:46:12 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on February 09, 2012, 05:33:42 PM
Just an A? I think I deserve an A+.

Now, now, that would make the other children feel bad, none of them got an A+.

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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #17 on: February 09, 2012, 06:08:09 PM »
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Just an A? I think I deserve an A+.

We gave your + to a student who wasn't doing as well.

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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #18 on: February 09, 2012, 06:46:41 PM »
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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #19 on: February 09, 2012, 08:29:40 PM »
The + needs to be redistributed.
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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #20 on: February 10, 2012, 12:40:01 AM »
I'd like to remind you numbskulls of this little tidbit:  "How Obama Got Elected".  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mm1KOBMg1Y8&feature=player_embedded
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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #21 on: February 10, 2012, 07:28:47 AM »
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89. The originator of this thread has

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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #22 on: February 10, 2012, 07:57:14 AM »
Why was the greg primitive, instead of the RZM primitive, kicked off Skins's island?

The greg primitive made points the primitives are always trying to make, nothing controversial about it. and it was the RZM primitive who pointed out people who voted for the Magic One are idiots.

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Re: Obama supporters are uneducated high school dropouts.
« Reply #23 on: February 10, 2012, 08:20:44 AM »
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I don't really understand this at all. Like frank said, I thought for sure RZM would get the boot.
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