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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

Is it because people found little difference in the two candidates? Or, are you guys that divided? You guys should fight again. The second civil war. Nifty.

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

Hmmm, intriguing...

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

Don't give them any ideas...

Although it's not like the Democrats would be ABLE to fight, having already given up all their weapons, property, and concept of self-defense...

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

Uh-oh...

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Posted by Vacuum robot lady from Spaceballs (Member # 239) on :

Wow. Two posts about politics without someone ignorantly slandering Liberals. Hmm, I think we've got a record.

Well, if anyone has any intelligent and non-libelous ignorant comments, go ahead.

No one wants to hear paradigm shit anymore.

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Posted by Saltah'na (Member # 33) on :

UM: Ditto.

From what I've been hearing, the race was so close because both candidates were so BAD!!!!!

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Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :

UM: I dunno. Didn't 1of2's comment come pretty close?

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Posted by Jay the Obscure (Member # 19) on :

Not really, he makes the mistake that all Democrats are "liberal"...a common falicy of the right.

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Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

Not all...but most.

Actually, why was it so close? If it was because they were so bad, then Ralph Nader would have a much higher percentage. I don't think I'll argue that they're both SO good...

I think, rather, that maybe the issues of which they stand for, the common folk just didn't care!

Apathy, not THAT'S scary.

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

I think the candidates were just so much the same that there was nothing to swing a lot of Democrats toward Bush or Republicans toward Gore. Therefore, people just voted in line w/ their own idiotic notions of "party", so it came out about even...

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

Heh. Half-a point to Jay for noticing the mistake as a generalization.

Half-a-point deducted for failing to recall that I'm a registered Democrat. (For about another week, anyway.)

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Posted by USS Vanguard (Member # 130) on :

Whatever happened to good old fashioned moderates...?
Everybody's so hardlined about everything nowadays.

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

I AM a moderate. I'm against government-sponsored censorship and nuclear weapons proliferation, and pro gay-marriage and separation of church and state. I'm a darned heathen 'secular humanist,' a Freemason, and a lot of other things that the far right tends to hate.

I've also read Orwell.

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Posted by Omega (Member # 91) on :

You sound like an athiest verion of, well, me.

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Posted by Kosh (Member # 167) on :

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Actually, why was it so close? If it was because they were so bad, then Ralph Nader would have a much higher percentage. I don't think I'll argue that they're both SO good...
I think, rather, that maybe the issues of which they stand for, the common folk just didn't care!
Apathy, not THAT'S scary.

A large turn out this time, or so it seems. Doesn't look so apathetic. I suspect poeple laughed when Nader announced. No good candidates this year.

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Er ...

You're against gay-marriage, you're against the seperation of state/church ... or are you just against nuclear weapons proliferation? That was worded kind of strangely. Otherwise, it sounds like you ARE the far right ... or did you mean far left?

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Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :

Seems pretty straightforward to me. He's against government-sponsored censorship and nuclear weapons proliferation (hence, "I'm against government-sponsored censorship and nuclear weapons proliferation..."), and he's pro gay-marriage and separation of church and state (hence, "...and pro gay-marriage and separation of church and state.").

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Ah ... ok, because the ways it phrased, it moves from "I'm againt..." and then the pro- seemed to mean, those in *favor* of pro-gay marriages ... thanks for pointing that out TSN.

First, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to accuse you of something you're not.

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Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :

The election was close because the majority of Americans are fat, rich, and happy, and wish to go on being fat, rich, and happy, and do not percieve any major differences between the two candidates that would affect that status. No candidate could campaign on a platform dedicated to saving the economy, for instance, because most Americans don't need the economy to be saved. There are no military concerns of high visibility. In other words, good times at home render the presidency rather superfluous. The candidates were forced to campaign on issues that either aren't very important to most of us, or that don't have short term solutions.

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Posted by First of Two (Member # 16) on :

I never said or implied "those who are" in my statement.

TSN's evaluation is entirely accurate.

Syntax is everything.

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Posted by Malnurtured Snay (Member # 411) on :

Yes, and when I re-read the post after TSN posted I realized I'd interpreted it wrong, and I apologized.

See, I thought you meant anti-pro gay marriages ... you know, that whole fuss up in Vermont ... so thats where the confusion came from. Sorry again.

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Posted by Diane (Member # 53) on :

Well, it's not really that close. Nader's liberal, and it's quite obvious that if Nader wasn't in the race, Gore would've won without contest.

But it's quite interesting how Florida came out at a 300-vote flat difference.

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