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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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UM: I dunno. Didn't 1of2's comment come pretty close?
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Not really, he makes the mistake that all Democrats are "liberal"...a common falicy of the right.
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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.
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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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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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You sound like an athiest verion of, well, me.
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quote: 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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