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By Garuda.Chanti 2014-11-08 10:19:30
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Leviathan.Chaosx said: »
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But oh well, more money for gas and oil companies! Less for our growing population! Schools, what are those?
Among the poor, the less educated they are the more likely they are to vote Republican.
Wealthier people vote republican. Education plays no part.

I give you Idaho and Mississippi as prime examples.

States high in poverty, low in education, and strongly Republican.

Or, for that mater, Washington's and Oregon's pacific coast counties and their "boiled logger syndrome."
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By Ragnarok.Nausi 2014-11-09 01:04:26
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Lotta good it did the middle class to vote Obama, incomes have fallen under his watch from his policies.
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By Altimaomega 2014-11-09 03:08:01
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Lotta good it did the middle class to vote Obama, incomes have fallen under his watch from his policies.


But.. but.. but... The Stock Market!
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By Lakshmi.Saevel 2014-11-09 08:38:24
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Lotta good it did the middle class to vote Obama, incomes have fallen under his watch from his policies.


But.. but.. but... The Stock Market!


No no no it's the Koch Brothers, they bribed everyone and rigged the elections.

It's so funny to see democrats demonize wealthy families aligned with the Republican party but refuse to notice the ones aligned with the Democrat party.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2014-11-09 08:41:38
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Lotta good it did the middle class to vote Obama, incomes have fallen under his watch from his policies.


But.. but.. but... The Stock Market!


No no no it's the Koch Brothers, they bribed everyone and rigged the elections.

It's so funny to see democrats demonize wealthy families aligned with the Republican party but refuse to notice the ones aligned with the Democrat party.
Can't piss of their Hollywood donors now, since they can influence the idiotic masses.
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By Lakshmi.Saevel 2014-11-09 08:51:42
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Lotta good it did the middle class to vote Obama, incomes have fallen under his watch from his policies.


But.. but.. but... The Stock Market!


No no no it's the Koch Brothers, they bribed everyone and rigged the elections.

It's so funny to see democrats demonize wealthy families aligned with the Republican party but refuse to notice the ones aligned with the Democrat party.
Can't piss of their Hollywood donors now, since they can influence the idiotic masses.

Ohh it gets far worse.

http://www.debt.org/faqs/americans-in-debt/economic-demographics-democrats/

Liberals dominate in two population segments, the ultra poor and the ultra wealthy. Republicans dominate in the middle class, ultra rich politically connected families like the Koch's or the Bush's are relatively rare compared to the Democrats.

This is why Democrats favor social welfare so much, it enables their ultra wealthy to buy power and keep the poor too poor to do anything else while exempting themselves from the cost and laying it on the Republican dominated middle class. In their progressive ideal society, only their ultra wealthy would govern the country while everyone else has a lessor form of "equality" akin to the Soviet Union, Cambodia or North Korea. Everyone goes to work, gives all the money to the state, then the state determines who gets what with zero of that evil Western capitalism.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2014-11-09 09:06:01
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So, that explains why people are so against the Koch brothers.

Their masters told them to be, and, like good little parrots they are, they followed their master's orders without question.
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By Odin.Jassik 2014-11-09 10:02:12
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Lakshmi.Saevel said: »
Asura.Kingnobody said: »
Lakshmi.Saevel said: »
Altimaomega said: »
Ragnarok.Nausi said: »
Lotta good it did the middle class to vote Obama, incomes have fallen under his watch from his policies.


But.. but.. but... The Stock Market!


No no no it's the Koch Brothers, they bribed everyone and rigged the elections.

It's so funny to see democrats demonize wealthy families aligned with the Republican party but refuse to notice the ones aligned with the Democrat party.
Can't piss of their Hollywood donors now, since they can influence the idiotic masses.

Ohh it gets far worse.

http://www.debt.org/faqs/americans-in-debt/economic-demographics-democrats/

Liberals dominate in two population segments, the ultra poor and the ultra wealthy. Republicans dominate in the middle class, ultra rich politically connected families like the Koch's or the Bush's are relatively rare compared to the Democrats.

This is why Democrats favor social welfare so much, it enables their ultra wealthy to buy power and keep the poor too poor to do anything else while exempting themselves from the cost and laying it on the Republican dominated middle class. In their progressive ideal society, only their ultra wealthy would govern the country while everyone else has a lessor form of "equality" akin to the Soviet Union, Cambodia or North Korea. Everyone goes to work, gives all the money to the state, then the state determines who gets what with zero of that evil Western capitalism.

Uh, I just want to point out that they are using a statistically insignificant number of "ultra wealthy" Americans. 3 to be exact, and the cutoff for 'ultra wealthy' being around 40 billion. Sorry, but someone with 500 million dollars of worth is not "middle class".

Also, Democrats tend to favor government assistance while Republicans tend to favor charitable organizations. The VAST majority of people earning more than 250K vote Republican, so that theory falls apart instantly. Hollywood is also an anomoly, which is easy to explain. Most of the wealthy people in the entertainment industry were at least middle class just a few years ago, many were desperately poor. They tend to still vote along those demographics.
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By fonewear 2014-11-09 10:18:40
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Hollywood actors vote no wonder the country is in bad shape...go back to making movies I don't watch please.

I feel so bad for those former middle class Hollywood actors we should set up some sort of charity for them.
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By Odin.Jassik 2014-11-09 10:29:03
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Hollywood actors vote no wonder the country is in bad shape...go back to making movies I don't watch please.

I feel so bad for those former middle class Hollywood actors we should set up some sort of charity for them.

SOME of them are informed, most just use their high profile to spout simplistic partisan BS from a taller soapbox.
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By fonewear 2014-11-09 10:38:18
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If Hollywood can't save the environment with organic gluten free food the world is doomed.
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By Shiva.Nikolce 2014-11-10 09:26:00
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Garuda.Chanti said: »
I give you Idaho

I'm sure everyone in Idaho looses sleep every night worrying about how you feel about them...It's too bad none of them got to go to a liberal arts college to be told how to think like you did.

If only they got the opportunity to learn how to do something usefull in this world like complain on the internet and repost huffpo articles.

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By Ragnarok.Nausi 2014-11-10 16:00:19
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So, we're sending another 1500 troops to Iraq! Obama campaigns on pulling out cause we got no business being there (twice). Only to be so desperate to avoid eating ***on the disaster that his decision ends up being that he delays the announcement to go back until a few days after the midterms.

Our president is a complete and total joke. Time for impeachment!
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By Odin.Jassik 2014-11-10 16:09:09
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So, we're sending another 1500 troops to Iraq! Obama campaigns on pulling out cause we got no business being there (twice). Only to be so desperate to avoid eating ***on the disaster that his decision ends up being that he delays the announcement to go back until a few days after the midterms.

Our president is a complete and total joke. Time for impeachment!

Right, impeach him not because he did something you didn't want him to do, but because he admitted his mistake and went back in...

For the record, if going back in wasn't an option, he shouldn't have been saying we wouldn't go back in, and I can't stand the idea that we still haven't learned that wiping out a regime just leave a vacuum for another (often worse) regime to step in. We did the same thing in Cuba 100 years ago and a dozen times since.
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By Ragnarok.Nausi 2014-11-10 16:19:23
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I'm impeaching him because he's incompetent, not cause he doesn't do what I want. Are you really gonna argue that he's not?
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By Ragnarok.Nausi 2014-11-10 16:26:19
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Leviathan.Chaosx said: »
Garuda.Chanti said: »
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But oh well, more money for gas and oil companies! Less for our growing population! Schools, what are those?
Among the poor, the less educated they are the more likely they are to vote Republican.
Wealthier people vote republican. Education plays no part.


Looking at the chart the relationship to poverty and democrats is clear. Democrats would not exist without poor people. Yet no one questions the notion that because poor people vote for them, the democrats have a fundamental interest in making more people poor.
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By Odin.Jassik 2014-11-10 16:30:20
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I'm impeaching him because he's incompetent, not cause he doesn't do what I want. Are you really gonna argue that he's not?
firstly, you're not impeaching anyone. Second, you are less competent than he is. Third, incompetence as you call it isn't grounds for impeachment. Lastly, impeachment is just a formal process to determine if they can be lawfully removed from office, and none of your reasons stand up to any level of critical analysis.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2014-11-10 17:08:06
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Odin.Jassik said: »
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I'm impeaching him because he's incompetent, not cause he doesn't do what I want. Are you really gonna argue that he's not?
firstly, you're not impeaching anyone. Second, you are less competent than he is. Third, incompetence as you call it isn't grounds for impeachment. Lastly, impeachment is just a formal process to determine if they can be lawfully removed from office, and none of your reasons stand up to any level of critical analysis.
1st: You are right, Nausi isn't impeaching anyone. He did say that he wanted to impeach Obama though.

2nd: I highly doubt there are many people in this world who is more incompetent than Obama. The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Biden.

3rd: You are correct, incompetence isn't grounds for impeachment. If it was, we should impeach everyone in the executive branch right now.

Lastly: Correct. Unfortunately, we have to stick with the American public's bad choices for another 2 more years.
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By Odin.Jassik 2014-11-10 17:44:46
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You can doubt his competence all you want but it's absolutely laughable to say that Nausi or the fictitious anyone would be more competent. We haven't had a truly competent president in decades at least, generations more likely. And there is no job that actually qualifies someone to be president, and no barometer for competence, there is no other job that rivals it.
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By Phoenix.Amandarius 2014-11-10 17:53:09
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Let's go ahead and scratch Community Organizer off that list though k?
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By Odin.Jassik 2014-11-10 17:58:30
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Let's go ahead and scratch Community Organizer off that list though k?

You'd have to cross senator off the empty list as well.
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By Leviathan.Chaosx 2014-11-10 18:01:39
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You can doubt his competence all you want but it's absolutely laughable to say that Nausi or the fictitious anyone would be more competent. We haven't had a truly competent president in decades at least, generations more likely. And there is no job that actually qualifies someone to be president, and no barometer for competence, there is no other job that rivals it.
I'll bet CN„ 5,000 that Nausi would make a better president than Obama.
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By Phoenix.Amandarius 2014-11-10 18:34:11
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Let's go ahead and scratch Community Organizer off that list though k?

You'd have to cross senator off the empty list as well.

Puhleeze
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By Shiva.Nikolce 2014-11-11 08:43:35
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but.... teh hope and teh change.... that's still coming.. right?

/can't hardly wait
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2014-11-11 08:56:26
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but.... teh hope and teh change.... that's still coming.. right?
When Obama was promising "hope and change" he meant for after he left office.

That we should hope that somebody competent takes his place and that they will change his policies, not continue or accelerate them.

He certainly wasn't talking about himself when he first ran for President.
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By Valefor.Vaeria 2014-11-11 08:56:30
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Anyone notice they aren't talking about Ebola anymore? Just a thought. Mid terms are over and only report is about the nurse who didn't want to be quarantined doesn't have Ebola after her 21 days. . . All a ploy.
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By Asura.Kingnobody 2014-11-11 08:57:45
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Anyone notice they aren't talking about Ebola anymore? Just a thought. Mid terms are over and only report is about the nurse who didn't want to be quarantined doesn't have Ebola after her 21 days. . . All a ploy.
There hasn't been new cases in the last 21 days either.

Of course, that won't stop the government from making everyone's lives hell for the sake of "protecting" us.
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By volkom 2014-11-11 09:05:11
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Asura.Kingnobody said: »
Valefor.Vaeria said: »
Anyone notice they aren't talking about Ebola anymore? Just a thought. Mid terms are over and only report is about the nurse who didn't want to be quarantined doesn't have Ebola after her 21 days. . . All a ploy.
There hasn't been new cases in the last 21 days either.

Of course, that won't stop the government from making everyone's lives hell for the sake of "protecting" us.
it was a hoax to divert the people's attention from issues abroad

/tinfoilhat
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By Shiva.Nikolce 2014-11-11 09:05:55
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Nausi cured ebola by washing everyone's doorknobs with bleach
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By Shiva.Nikolce 2014-11-11 10:34:28
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Shiva.Nikolce said: »
volkom said: »
can we still place midterm election bets?

YES!

Total Senate seats held by republicans when it's all said and done.

Nik - 52
Chaosx - 53
Nausi and Kingnoobie - 54

And if anyone still cares..... there are still two races open

stoopid alaska

and we won't know about LA until after december 6th
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