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lancemurdoch Donating Member (180 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-03 09:05 PM
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Greens versus non-voters
Edited on Sat Oct-18-03 09:15 PM by lancemurdoch
What is all this obsession about people voting for the Greens? About half of eligible voters do not vote in elections. On the other side of that, you have at a maximum 3-4% of people voting Green instead of Democrat. Why are DLC "new" Democrats so obsessed about getting rid of the Greens instead of reaching out to the disaffected, alienated 50%? Is it so they can then say, "we have to win, so we have to select a 'moderate' like Joe Lieberman?" I guess when you have a Green standing up for progressive, working class values, it's hard to make that argument.
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Booberdawg Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-03 09:08 PM
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1. flame bait
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coralrf Donating Member (656 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-03 09:13 PM
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2. What is this post about???
I read the thing 4 times and I fail to see a point. All I get is garble and psycobabble.


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ryharrin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-18-03 09:18 PM
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3. Its about focusing on getting non-voters to vote
instead of getting greens back in the party. I think they're actually only thing. If you get new voters to vote, it's probably because you're taking strong positions, many of which greens will like.
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