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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dvdw© who wrote (30079)	6/6/2008 10:06:43 PM
From: Ann Corrigan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 224755

Sounds like a vote for John McCain...Good robot!--he's the better of 2 evils.

To: dvdw© who wrote (30079)	6/7/2008 12:30:06 AM
From: MJ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224755

What caught my attention in your post were the opening paragraphs. "The US population is approximately 302 million people. 24% of which are NOT eligible to vote, due to age. 302- 72.5 = 229 million who actually make up the electorate. Clinton got 18 .x million votes 18/229=7.8% of potential voters. * Clinton obama combined got approx 36.x million votes in the primaries. 36.x/229= 15% of the electorate, the counted collusion of a vocal minority whose aim is what?" Further thoughts, mj For almost 20 months we have seen and heard figures giving the percentages of votes that Hillary gained or the percentages for Obama of the Democrats who voted with such percentages as 60%, 40%. 28% as applied to the number of votes in a primary state. These figures became mesmerizing giving the impression that the whole of America was voting-----------when instead these represented a very small percentage, just 15% of the total voters in the USA----as you wrote. Will Obama be able to build on this 15% of the voters? Considering that not all of Hillary's supporters will vote for him and considering there were reported cross over votes by Republicans (not verifiable) His challenge then becomes to bring in more than 35% of those who did not vote plus a percentage to cover the HIllary supporters who will not vote for him. Thanks dvdw for these statistics which are thought provoking.