One reason 1994 will not replay itself in 2010

[LiberalFighter]

The internet!! Thank you Al Gore for inventing the internets. :sarcasm:

But seriously, the internet has made it easier to raise funding for our candidates. And more difficult for Republicans to get away with their lies.

[treestar]

1. Very True!

:bounce:

[Jennicut]

2. Yeah, the net was just getting popular around 1995, when I went to college.

AOL was popular then too. That gives me nightmares.

[Jackpine Radical]

4. I subscribed to Delphi because it gave some access to the net,

which iirc AOHell did not.

[Jennicut]

5. AOL was awful. My Mom still uses them but she is a conservative.

I make fun of her.

[Yavin4]

18. Paying for Email!

:rofl:

[Jackpine Radical]

3. Reason # 2: Health insurance reform (no matter how fucked up it is)

PASSED this time, unlike the Clinton debacle. The Dems have some momentum, and should pick yp speed as they crush the Republicans on jobs & a few other critical pieces of legislation. The Dems can end up looking like heroes, and could even GAIN seats in this off-year election if they can give people enough reason to go out & vote for them. The Republicans are playing a very dangerous game, and indulging in a potentially very expensive fantasy life if they truly believe their own propaganda that people don't want these reforms.

I can't get too excited about what we've seen so far from the Dems, but I can get fairly fired-up about not letting the likes of Romney, Cantor, Boner & Co. rule the roost.

Democratic mediocrity looks pretty good when stacked up against Republican evil.

[FrenchieCat]

7. I'm still very concerned with the traditional media.....

as they still influence way more folks than they should.

It is one of the reason that health care was so difficult to pass....
they shit reporting day in, day out, in where not only did they NOT debunk
Republican talking points, they pushed them.

I'm ready to get rid of them!

And yeah....thinking of Republicans having any more power than they have right now,
should give anybody a jolt to get their asses out to the polls....for sure.

[Jackpine Radical]

12. Maybe the best piece of data to take away from that is

that the Republicans and the Mega$limyMedia weren't able to kill it.

[ClarkUSA]

6. True.

GOP bullshit also gets debunked faster than you can say, "Google."

[Froward69]

8. back in 1992

the ONLY people who had Internet or the money for a computer that could go online, was the wealthy (conservative Republicans).
I got online in 1996... and i could not believe how hard-line EVERYWHERE was. yes I started out on AOL it was then and still is a bastion of closed minded conservative thought.

The first online book I was ever offered was an Ayn Rand book... To "straighten me out".

[LiberalFighter]

13. Hey I resent that. I'm not wealthy or a conservative Republican.

I was online before AOL, CompuServe or any other provider was around. Back then they were Bulletin Board Systems.

[Ter]

15. Not entirely true

Almost any computer could go online, and you didn't have to be rich. I went online in February, 1993 with GEnie online service. I had an Atari ST computer, and a then-impressive 2400 baud modem. Let me tell you, online was beautiful before it became commercialized.

[Berry Cool]

19. True.

I didn't own a computer of my own until 1996, and I have never been rich, but I was online as a result of my job from 1991 onward. I had a work computer and email at that early date. In '96 I got my own computer and my own slooooow dialup Internet service for the first time.

[KingFlorez]

9. Another reason would be no gun control legislation

Taking on the gun lobby is what harmed Clinton and the Democrats more than anything else.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

10. Another reason: The Repub's "Repeal & Replace" Pledge

Although it is unlikely to be successful (and realistically could only succeed with a Republican President AND a Republican-controlled Congress :puke:), the Republicans have given those of us who worked so hard to see HCR through a HUGE reason why it will be important, indeed critical, for us to keep Republicans from being able to control the House and/or Senate in the foreseeable future. While using their quixotic pledge to repeal HCR is almost surely a political ploy to fire up their base (more) and get them to the polls this November, they have unintentionally given US a reason to get out to the polls (and get other people to the polls) as well in November 2010 AND November 2012.

[scheming daemons]

11. The REAL reason is this: in 1994, Republicans had been out of power for 40 years

Nobody could remember how bad they were at it.

In 2010, they've only been out of power for 4 years. We KNOW how they govern... it is fresh in our memory.


In 1994, they could make all kinds of promises about how they would govern if they were in power and America could believe them.... since none of them were around the previous time the GOP held congress.

[damonm]

14. This, FTW.

[Berry Cool]

20. Republicans as a whole had not been out of power for 40 years.

They just hadn't controlled Congress. But yeah, if anyone needed a memory refresher as to how they do when they control both houses of Congress, well, they've had one now.

[Cha]

16. Why shouldn't it go for the Dems the way it did in 2002

for the gops? Course, the gops had the corporatemediawhores deepfried in their pockets like they do now.

[Cosmocat]

21. 9-11 ...

The country was still very much realing after 9-11, and somehow the MSM had allowed the republicans brainwash the sheeple that the MFers who let it happen on their watch were the only people who could protect them from the lilly livered democrats who hated america and would allow the muslims to kill us all ...

Witness Max Cleeland, a veteran who had lost three of his limbs in the service of his country being ousted as a sitting senator for a douchebag republican who never served who painted Cleeland as "soft on terror."

[Kurt_and_Hunter]

17. Politics has not gotten more honest since the advent of the internet

In fact, the internet years have been the worst political years since forever!

Impeachment, the super fair coverage of Gore/Bush, Florida recount and 8 years of proto-fascism and wall-to-wall lies. And the quick submarining of a popular president, the rise of this tea party crap and a public woefully uninformed on the basic issues.

It's swell that DU can talk to Kos and visa versa but the internet is, as a medium, the greatest purveyor and popularizer of lies we've seen yet.