Letters to the Editor
xufapemu
Published Letters: 406 Editor's Choice: 7
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I'm unsure how people think this effects the elections.
[Read the article: California Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Gay marriage has played a roll in states where Constitutional amendments banning the practice is on the ballot. It usually means a high turnout in that state of Christian conservatives who vote for Republican candidates while they're there. It is purely a GOTV tactic.
I don't see higher than average turnout of Christian conservatives in MO, PA, or OH because the CA Supreme Court made a decision.
And unless its a ballot measure in CA, it won't turnout the vote either since there isn't really anything to vote against.
Again, gay marriage is used by Republicans as a GOTV tactic. Someone will have to explain to me how this decision does that in swing states.
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@ brynn
[Read the article: California Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree.
Democrats lose because we don't stand on principle.
I have to laugh everytime something like this hits the news, the Democrats on these message boards just shit their pants. It's time to cowboy/cowgirl up folks.
From some of the letters I've read on this board in the last month, the race is already over, John McCain won and is running for re-election. Good God you people are a bunch of pansies. Oddly enough, the biggest quitters are Clinton supporters. I thought those people were supposed to be fighters.
Any more it seems like their just fighting over who's going to get the blame in November.
No guts, no glory I say. If you're not willing to fight, you get none of the glory.
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McCain is in a quandry.
[Read the article: The California decision and the presidential campaign]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]He needs to shore up support with the base, but almost anything he could do in that direction would turn off independents.
Here's another. Even though Bush is unpopular, his policies are for the most part the conservative agenda. When McCain attempts to ingratiate himself to conservatives, its harder to distance himself from Bush.
It's a very fine tight rope he must walk, and I don't think he can afford to use this issue to piss off independent voters.
My feeling is that if gay marriage was such a huge issue for independent voters, they probably would be Republicans and not independent.
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ShawnWM
[Read the article: How will Barack Obama get to 270?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You say the election was stolen from you?
How did Obama steal the election from McCain?
His election against you Republicans isn't until November.
Come on! I don't think anyone is buying that you are a dissatisfied Democrat.
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@ Fender
[Read the article: How will Barack Obama get to 270?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Does race REALLY matter this much to you?
You seem to be obsessed with race, gender etc.
Is everything boiled down to identity with you?
Frankly, I have to remind myself that Obama is black. Obama doesn't constantly refer to his race, the media has begun to play it down and as folks get more comfortable with him, race becomes less of an issue.
As he's said many times, he's not African-American or half-white American; he's just an American. An American who doesn't hate Israel.
If you have to lie to express your point, your point is bullshit.
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@ Roman Berry
[Read the article: How will Barack Obama get to 270?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]You've run the math time and time again?
OMG you've got to be kidding me?
You do realize that at this point in the process in 1980, Walter Mondale was 17 points ahead of Reagan don't you?
Al Gore was a lock to beat Bush in 2000. John McCain is running behind or statistaically tied in these battleground states with Obama, and LOSING points in the past weeks.
Oh, but no worries, Roman Berry has run the math and he says there's no freakin' way.
You hear that Republicans? You can sleep easy. No need to even campaign. Roman Berry has run the math time and time again and he says its a lock.
You people are freaking hillarious!!
I hope to hell all Republicans are as 'smart' at math as you.
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Meant '84 with Mondale and Reagan
[Read the article: How will Barack Obama get to 270?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]but you get the idea
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@ Jeff Smith
[Read the article: How will Barack Obama get to 270?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, Adams is really big now.
I went to a trivia night for my kid's hockey team and there was a question "who is known as the father of the Constitution".
I thought, 'this could be a few different founders' but I put down Madison; thought he was the more obvious.
Went they gave out the answers they said it was Adams.
People thought I was just a sore loser because I complained about the answer, but I was just upset that people are so ignorant of American history.
What's was even tougher to take was that the guy who researched the questions and answers had American flags sticking out of every window of his Ford Explorer.
God Bless America
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Factoidus
[Read the article: How will Barack Obama get to 270?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Should be factdevoidus.
Another idiot with a race fixation.
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Uncle Fester
[Read the article: How will Barack Obama get to 270?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The guy who runs fivethirtyeight.com has been especially accurate. In fact, he's been consistently right on the money.
Want to really 'run the math time and time again'?
Look at his math here http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/05/black-youth-and-latino-turnout-and.html
Warning to Republicans; you may not want to read this link.
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@ Roman Berry
[Read the article: How will Barack Obama get to 270?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I may have been wrong about Gore and Bush numbers, I was relying on my faulty memory on that one.
But the point remains that anyone who thinks they can tell who is going to win or lose an election months away is simply kidding themselves.
If it were the case, Hillary Clinton would have changed the way she campaigned for the nomination.
Right now based on the polling averages at www.fivethirtyeight.com Obama has 268.7 electoral votes and McCain has 269.3. And Pablano has come closer to predicting these races than any other polling source.
He said early on IN would go 51-49 Clinton and and missed NC by 1% point.
The point is, with polling averages showing 268.7 and 269.3 there's no way in hell you can tell me with certainty who's going to be the next President.
You can call bullshit on my memory and I'll call bullshit on your powers of prognostication.