Obama Takes 23 Point Lead Over Romney

[Hauldren Collider]

The ignorant already do vote. This is just the disinterested not voting.

The disinterested are probably even more ignorant. 5% of Americans or so don't know who Mitt Romney is right now. If you're that disinterested, we don't want your opinion.

[Aeson]

If you aren't engaged enough to do something so simple, why would your opinion be worth anything anyways?

"Would you like to elect jackass A who isn't going to do what they've said they would, or jackass B who isn't going to do what they've said they would?"

a) A
b) B
c) **** you, I'm going to make myself a sandwich

[Imran Siddiqui]

The disinterested are probably even more ignorant. 5% of Americans or so don't know who Mitt Romney is right now. If you're that disinterested, we don't want your opinion.

It isn't like I want your opinion, but you'll provide it anyway .

[Hauldren Collider]

It isn't like I want your opinion, but you'll provide it anyway .

You make a choice to read this forum

But still, I think it's a pretty safe bet that someone who doesn't know who Mitt Romney is when you can't even open a newspaper without seeing his name probably should skip offering his opinion.

[Al B. Sure!]

Compulsory voting works for Democrats because ignorant and uninformed people will vote Democrat.

[Imran Siddiqui]

You make a choice to read this forum

But still, I think it's a pretty safe bet that someone who doesn't know who Mitt Romney is when you can't even open a newspaper without seeing his name probably should skip offering his opinion.

Who reads a newspaper anymore, luddite?

[Hauldren Collider]

Compulsory voting works for Democrats because ignorant and uninformed people will vote Democrat.

QFT. As much as Guynemer identifies with their "**** the system, pols lie to me" attitude, their views are everything he professes to hate about America. They're the sort of people that will say "Oh, hmm, we should have more trains, I like trains, let's vote for Obama's train thing" and then turn around and say "now wait a minute, don't raise my taxes!" and fail to see the connection.

[Felch]

Compulsory voting is a favorite tool of sophists and demagogues. In some places, like Philly, that means Democrats. But Republicans are just as capable of exploiting the ignorant and prejudiced.

[giblets]

The fact of the matter is that democrats rely significantly on the demographic of "people who can be persuaded to hop on a bus and vote for whomever someone tells them to" in order to win elections. If we passed mandatory voting laws, they wouldn't have to pay for the buses.

If these people are simply voting for whomever someone tells them to then Republicans would have started renting buses a long time ago.

[giblets]

QFT. As much as Guynemer identifies with their "**** the system, pols lie to me" attitude, their views are everything he professes to hate about America. They're the sort of people that will say "Oh, hmm, we should have more trains, I like trains, let's vote for Obama's train thing" and then turn around and say "now wait a minute, don't raise my taxes!" and fail to see the connection.

Trains are a pretty small part of the budget. Even if someone had said this about trains and taxes at some point in the history of man it wouldn't prove much of anything. Also, "Hmm I like blowing up foreigners, hey don't raise my taxes" doesn't seem particularly rare but I don't think those people are helping Obama much.

[Felch]

Democrats have always been better at exploiting the decency of the poor for political purposes. Republicans go the opposite route, exploiting middle class fears to maintain power. It's been that way since the Whigs and the Irish.

[-Jrabbit]

Who reads a newspaper anymore, luddite?

[Jon Miller]

QFT. As much as Guynemer identifies with their "**** the system, pols lie to me" attitude, their views are everything he professes to hate about America. They're the sort of people that will say "Oh, hmm, we should have more trains, I like trains, let's vote for Obama's train thing" and then turn around and say "now wait a minute, don't raise my taxes!" and fail to see the connection.

This group already votes, and votes Republican.

JM

[notyoueither]

Compulsory anything is antithetical to freedom.

Complete freedom without responsibility is antithetical to a civil society.

[notyoueither]

Realistically speaking, do you really want the ignorant and disinterested voting in the first place? Is the country better off with people who don't care enough to vote of their own volition exercising the franchise?

Maybe authorities would take an interest in education.