Union County South Carolina unemployment: 12.8% and growing

[DemoTex]

The 12.8% does not include new layoffs announced by a Milliken plant. Greenville's TV-4 did a report on the woes of this upstate SC county on tonight's news. Of course, they did not pick up on the irony of the county's name and the lack of labor organizations there. Nor do the mediawhores dare connect it to the reasons the SC economy is crumbling. Bu$h will be in big trouble down in SC, even if the mediawhores don't explain it to the sheeple. From where I sit in NC, the economy is better - but the people are not that well off. They love the GOP up here. Poor folks supporting the rich man's party ... beatinest thing I have ever seen.

[bluestateguy]

1. Union County: 54% Bush-44% Gore in 2000

Even if those numbers could be moved to about 50%-50%, that would be very damaging to *.

[DemoTex]

2. Stupid redneck people!

I almost want to say they deserve what they get, but they don't. Nobody deserves misery and poverty. So instead of saying fuck them, I'll just say fuck Bu$h. It's his fault, not theirs.

[KoKo]

3. What about the 44% who voted for Gore...should we blame them?

That's pretty close for SC.....I would have thought the numbers would be 75% Bush and maybe 15%Libertarian and the rest for Buchanan.

[bluestateguy]

4. That was a different time

many people down there were probably still mad about Monica and the oral sex stuff. They had that luxury amidst the healthy economy of 2000. They won't in 2004.

[DemoTex]

5. Blowjobs or jobs?

We will see what is important next year.

[jiacinto]

6. That's a great way to get them to vote for our candidates

I am sure that insulting them is going to bring them to our cause.

[GOPBasher]

17. "I am sure that insulting them is going to bring them to our cause."

Well you're right there. But speaking truthfully, having evidence to back up our claims, and being on the right side of the debate won't bring them to our cause either. If you think it can, let me ask you this: Has it yet? For years we've been showing these people that, as just one in hundreds of examples, an expansion of the earned income tax credit will help them much more than Bush's tax cuts. They obviously can't comprehend that, can they? If so, they would've by now. So, we're not going to change their minds. I think we should concentrate on the swing voters who make or break our elections. We shouldn't try to convert the morons who have been voting against their own self interests for their whole lives.

[GOPBasher]

12. But they VOTED for Bush!

What do you mean, "it's not their fault"? Well, it's not the fault of those who didn't vote for Bush; however, the ones who voted for Bush are responsible for anything bad that comes out of his presidency. Don't be so nice. If people vote for Bush and then lose their jobs, screw them, they deserve it -- UNLESS they've had a change of heart, then I'll consider feeling sorry for them.

[jiacinto]

7. Yeah

But we have convince them that we Democrats aren't hostile to their values. That's the problem as I see it.

[DemoTex]

8. We never see eye-to-eye, J.

Nor do you have a clue as to the mentality of these people. They don't care what we think, say, or do. They only care about payday. Understand that, my friend, and you will understand the deep south.

BTW: They ain't reading DU! They are watching FOX and hoping to send a kid to Bob Jones.

[GOPBasher]

10. The problem is actually

the fact that those people are totally stupid. Anyone who makes less than $200,000/yr and votes Republican is a moron. They believe the dumb bullshit like, "Good Christians should vote Republican." Well if they're stupid enough to believe that, they deserve to lose their jobs. I actually laugh at people who voted for Bush and then lost their job.

[DemoTex]

11. I agree with you on 10, but not 9 ...

Nobody "deserves" to lose their jobs. I don't care how they vote.

[GOPBasher]

15. You're nicer and more tolerant than I am.

You're better at keeping those liberal traits like love and tolerance, even for those who hate you in return. I, however, am not quite as good and you. I hate them, because they hate me. And I do think that if they're that stupid, they deserve to lose their jobs. I only feel sorry for their kids; it's not their fault.

[GOPBasher]

9. Well the ones who voted for Bush deserve to lose their jobs.

I'm not talking about those who voted for Gore, Nader or any other candidate. But the ones who voted for Bush and then lost their jobs: hahahahaha you morons!

[jiacinto]

13. Sorry I don't think like that

I don't wish that on anyone.

[GOPBasher]

14. You're nicer than I am.

I guess you're a much nicer person than I. When people who make $10/hr vote Republican, it makes me want to puke. These idiots have been duped by the Right Wing. They're so stupid it's pathetic. Next time, you idiots, don't vote against your own self interests, and then maybe you won't lose your job. Get it???? Is that simple enough for your feeble little minds, you Bush supporters? I'm sorry I'm one of those "elitist, liberal, academia people" that you hate so much. But maybe if you'd stop thinking that intelligence is a bad thing and vote for one of those smarter people, then maybe, just maybe, you won't lose your job and you'll be able to feed your family. Morons

[jiacinto]

16. They're not stupid

They just don't have the best information. The other thing is that insulting them isn't going to get them to change their minds.

[GOPBasher]

19. We need swing voters, not Republicans

I see what you're saying and I respect that. I guess the difference between us is that I don't think there's a snowball's chance in hell that we'll ever get hard core Republicans to change their minds. So, I think we should concentrate on swing voters -- those are the people who change elections. Also, we can concentrate on getting new voters to our side. But people who've been voting Repug for years? I don't think we're going to get them to our side, no matter how nice we are to them.

[FlemingsGhost]

18. Boy, what a shame.

"Four more years... four more years."

10:1 Bush carries S.C. in '04. Further proving my theory that the general public is... well, nevermind.