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This Modern World
Democrats: United as never before!
By Tom Tomorrow [2008-01-28]
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  • Democrats outpolling Republicans

    TT's cartoon is funny and pointed in its way, but it points to a narrow problem among a select group of highly opinionated political junkies. Most Americans are just happy to get a chance to vote for Bush's replacement, and they are turning to Democrats to make their choices.

    So far in the primaries Democrats (as a group) have been outpolling Republicans (as a group) by a factor of about 3 to 2. See the NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/us/politics/29gap.html?hp

    There is energy, excitement, and enthusiasm on the Democratic side; disarray and demoralization on the Republican side.

    The Democratic presidential field is an embarrassment of riches. The Republican field is simply an embarrassment.

    -- DLF
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    Monday, January 28, 2008 09:40 PM

  • Too late for some of us

    Some of us have to put our differences aside already because our guy has already been driven out of the race. Well I'm not going to take it, I tell you. If I can't vote for a liberal democrat, I'm going to vote for the most far right Republican I can before I'll even think of voting for some middle of the road Democrat.

    I'm going to do this because I'm just that petulant.

    -- Tideswimmer
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    Monday, January 28, 2008 11:16 PM

  • I appreciate your explanation lorax, but it confirms the orignal point, you really don't understand politics

    I'm seeing that a lot in Obama supporters and it's interesting and alarming. There seems to be some interest in information and finding out facts but there appears to be an almost total lack of historical context or ability to put the facts in perspective and have any rational basis for seeing which facts have more importance in which contexts and which have less. It doesn't matter if marketing decisions get made in this sort of intuitive way I guess but it seems very unsuited to making policy decisions. Hopefully the people actually making the policy retain the ability to follow a more traditional, i.e. rational decision making process.

    --Anonymous
    Tuesday, January 29, 2008 01:08 AM

  • The circular firing squad

    Dems are doing the usual: participating in the "circular firing squad".

    Or as Will Rogers used to say (I'm paraphrasing) "I don't belong to any organized political party. I'm a Democrat".

    -- Traindriver25
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    Tuesday, January 29, 2008 08:05 AM

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