And all those people could also claim that the likelihood of their vote having an actual… ah, why bother.
Yes, you are correct. And the larger the number the higher the chance that it could have an actual impact on the election.
There’s a difference between me refraining from voting and preaching that to the masses.
Individually it almost for sure does not matter. Collectively it more likely matters.
I don’t see your point.
On average, this board leans left when measured against US politics. If you don’t accept that, fine. We can agree to disagree. And if you disagree, then I’ll just assume you’ve been taking eye blinking lessons from Bricker.
Do you know if I can take the course online?
Does he take PayPal?
Wasn’t the GOP dead when Obama was sworn in?
Yes but it raised from the dead three days later.
If Ron Paul actually won, Og forbid, drugs might be legal but the ensuing Depression would mean you wouldn’t have enough money to buy them.
His ideas have had plenty of exposure. That the reaction has been that they are stupid doesn’t mean they haven’t been heard.
I hope, but who knows. As a center left (which means US progressive liberal by global standards, not the Joe Lieberman/Max Baucus of US standards) I really hope that happens. Young people tend to be a lot more open to concepts like a safety net, universal health care, gov intervention in the markets, alternative energy, and the public sector in general.
But who knows. Like I said, the same thing was said about the baby boomer generation. now they are a strong bloc pushing for regressive social and economic policies (them and people a little older, the pre-1946 generation).
But, surprisingly, while having developed the usual hunger for live-human flesh, still showed no interest in brains.
So, IOW, even a slight statistical uptick - infitesimally small, almost too small to measure statistically – in the number of potential voters who care enough to vote, and care to vote for Gore over Bush, could have made the difference.