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Adrian Taverner
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Yup. I posted a pro-eminem link. Maybe you should click.
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verinice.
My initial thought was that I hope people take this seriously, but of course the people who wouldn’t take this seriously are the ones on the way out.
I love it. I’m attracted to his sheer tenaciousness.
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yah grant, that fact that he has the balls to do it at all is what i like about it the most.
Reminds me of the Vote Fore Change tour.
http://www.moveonpac.org/vfc/
Maybe it’s just that I don’t remember much, but how many other presidents have had so much (high profile) public outcry against them?
I’m not saying that Bush is setting any records here, but it’s gotta be pretty high…
A Perfect Circle‘s got one, too. Not quite as poignant, but still interesting.
Xentac’s asking the same question everyone’s gotta be asking. I mean, when was the last time the American people were so angry at their president? So horrified at the unsupported yet relentless acts of their leader? I’d have to say that the last time ’round, it was LBJ – and he was so vastly unpopular at the end of his first full term that he announced he wouldn’t even *run* for election. Well, not only is Dubya running, it looks like the bastard is going to win. How the hell can this happen?
Great video, thanks for the link.
I love that he’s appealing to his audience the only way they’ll listen and bringing them to a place they wouldn’t usually be. A battle wherein they’ll fight The Man and march like an army… but in the end they show their anger BY VOTING.
He’ll definitely have some sway with the younger voters, who are already pretty anti-Bush, but it all comes down to the swing states.
That’s actually something that’s bothered me. In this endless quest for dumbing things down, for making a mountain into a bite-size piece that can be fit into an easy to swallow sound bite we’ve simplified the balance of the election into these mythical undecided states. How does that make sense? It makes as much sense as having all the undecided voters gathered in one place at the same time. Just silly. I laugh at these maps that show us in neatly blocked colour all the states commited one way or the other. Must be nice to have a completely unified population. I wonder how the Republicans feel about living in a Democrat state? And so forth. Gotta love gross oversimplification. We end up with a ridiculous amount of focus on “battleground states”, where for some strange reason no one can decide who to vote for.
The reason the swing states get so much focus is simply that many of the other states know who they will vote for already. They have a strange rule wherein states give ALL their votes to the party with the most votes within that state. So if a state has 9 votes, if one side wins the state with 5 state votes, the state will contribute ALL 9 instead of just five. So if the state is already pretty much decided, then all of it’s votes are decided.
A swing state is a big deal since if you win a thin majority there you win the whole thing.
They should just add up all the votes and that’s it. Why should someone in Ohio or Florida have so much more power to affect the US election, and hence the world.