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skipos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 10:05 AM
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Poll question: Dumb hypothetical question: How much $ would it take you to vote for Bush?
Edited on Wed Apr-05-06 10:05 AM by skipos
Lets say it is 2008, the constitution has been altered so Bush can run for a third term, voting is Diebold-less and 100% secure, you like the dem nominee, and polls indicate the election is going to be extremely close in your state, and your state may decide the election.

If someone offered to pay you to vote for Bush, what is the LEAST amount it would take? And remember, you don't know if your vote will effect the outome of the election.
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BlueEyedSon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 10:06 AM
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1. ONE MEEEELYUN DOLLARS!
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Sinti Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 10:07 AM
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2. There is no amount of money that would be sufficient n/t
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 10:08 AM
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3. I'd do it for $8 Trillion
And use it to pay-off the national debt.

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NewJeffCT Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 10:51 AM
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16. it would come back next year
Bush would just use it as an excuse for more tax cuts for millionaires.
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BlooInBloo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 10:10 AM
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4. Idiotic question. Another case of "Skinner's Theorem"...
... Which says something like "some poll questions are so morally tilted against one answer, that the results of the poll cannot be taken as indicative of anything".
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warrens Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 10:10 AM
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5. About $100 million would get me into the income class
Where Repuke policies would be good for me. I still couldn't vote for the fucker, though.
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windlight Donating Member (337 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 10:32 AM
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12. I agree
And was thinking the same thing as i read the Poll...:)
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BurtWorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 10:10 AM
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6. It would take all the money invested in the Iraq war and in tax cuts
to be reinvested in actually productive programs. (And even then I would probably vote for someone else and just say I voted for Bushboy.)
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 10:13 AM
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7. I just spent 2 1/2 years living on $800/month
when my mortgage took the first $560. I was looking at the necessity of selling my house and nearly everything I own and moving into a studio apartment just to survive on that amount.

And no amount of money would have persuaded me to vote for that thing. The same goes for antichoice Democrats. Can't do it, won't do it.
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DrGonzoLives Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 10:14 AM
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8. $450 million
If I'm going to sell out, I'm going to do it in style.

And that money better damn well be tax free.
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tech3149 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 10:18 AM
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9. right now it would be about $10 trillion
but that figure is rising exponentially.
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MrsT Donating Member (427 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 10:20 AM
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10. Lets face it, money rules the world
I wouldn't be able to live with myself for $1,000,000, but if I got enough money to fund an incredible presidential candidate, I would do it. What would that be, $100 million?
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skipos Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 10:28 AM
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11. welcome to du!
:hi:
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 10:50 AM
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15. Hi MrsT!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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Love Bug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 10:44 AM
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13. My vote is not for sale!
If I won't sell my vote for a tax cut, why would I sell it for cash? Hell, no, some things should be above money. My vote is one of them.
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Clarkansas Donating Member (701 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 10:44 AM
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14. I have to admit I'd probably take a cool mil
I don't think I could pass up that kind of financial security, and my family has some serious financial problems right now.
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uncle ray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 11:29 AM
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17. let the country spiral further down the shitter
fuck the rest of em, i got my million dollars!

:eyes:
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Clarkansas Donating Member (701 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 11:42 AM
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19. I am not the only one who voted for a million
but at least I admit that I'd consider it. Only because my family is pretty financially screwed right now.
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YankeyMCC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 11:31 AM
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18. Can't pay me enough to help
send people to die for an unjust war.
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SmokingJacket Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 11:44 AM
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20. No amount would be worth being responsible for the downfall
of civilization.
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laruemtt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 11:45 AM
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21. even 3 brazillians would't be enough ;=)
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 11:53 AM
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22. VERY bad karma to take the blood-and-oil soaked money...
Seriously, I wouldn't do it. :scared:
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DireStrike Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 11:54 AM
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23. Hah... 1 million? I can't even retire on that today. Get lost, cheapskate!
I'd sell, eventually. It would have to be enough money that I could sway public opinion with the merest flexing of my fiscal pinky, and still have enough left over to personally finance all the programs that would be cut by asshole. Basically, enough money to make the winner of the presidency irrelevant.
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Nightflurry Donating Member (132 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 12:19 PM
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24. Easy, however much money it would take to ..
Buy him out of office and into the Hague.
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savemefromdumbya Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 12:21 PM
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25. never
Edited on Wed Apr-05-06 12:22 PM by savemefromdumbya
nein, non, lo
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Katherine Brengle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 12:23 PM
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26. Assuming that having over a billion dollars could erase my morals...
then that would do it for me--hell, I'd get a tax cut!
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Rocknrule Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Apr-05-06 12:56 PM
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27. Only for enough money to buy back all the votes * stole
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