Reply #79: But why wouldn't the new registrants be fanatically keen on voting [View All]

Democrat, after Bush's first tenure?

Had there been ANYTHING that was not a disaster for all but the richest in your country? Even the stock-market - oil and gas related, excepted - had gone South; the national debt had gone from trillions in credit to trillions in debt; the social safety nets had been sorely vitiated; jobs are poorly paid, unemployment has, I believe, worsened. Heck, maybe the number of the poorest-paid service jobs have been boosted; disasters of historic, epoch-making dimensions, widely perceived as avoidable, such as 9/11, New Orleans, the national debt (already mentioned), Iraq and the (again widely held), world-wide growth in terrorism, the draconian, indeed, illegal impinging of civil liberties by this Administration, the roundly despotic way in which the previous election had been stolen from Gore by the Supreme court.

Look, I know you convince yourselves that urbanely-expressed demurrals and hesitant and partial acquiescences will not be noticed for the effective, unconscionable blandishments they actually represent, and the above is just one of many examples that could be cited.