I am bigoted against low-information voters......

- If you are voting based on the melanin in a candidate's skin... I'm bigoted against you.

- If you are voting based on a candidate chromosomally being XX instead of XY... I'm bigoted against you.

- If you are voting based on a candidate's first, last, or middle name... I'm bigoted against you.

- If you are voting based on a candidate's bowling score, ability to operate a convenience store coffee machine, pant-suit colors and styles, speaking style, ability to handle alcohol, or jump shot... I'm bigoted against you.

- If you are voting based on the remarks of someone OTHER than the candidate themselves or people in their inner circle... I'm bigoted against you.


This nation finds itself in the rut we are in because of far too many low-information voters. Take the time to find out what the candidates are about, to understand the issues, or stay the fuck home.

I don't care how you vote... but vote based on something that actually matters and has something to do with the direction this country takes.

so they don't spend too much time thinking about it.

can't say I blame 'em, but it does make them easy targets.

Seriously. k & r.

fact

I know how I would define them, but you would probably define them differently. Therefore, any link that I post would be an exercise in futility.

But only 17% of adult residents in WV hold a college degree. Low-information voters indeed.

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/clinton-seen-bagging-easy-victory/story.aspx?guid=%7B35D6256E-FB76-445B-A2CE-56CBAEB9ACE2%7D&dist=msr_1

Add that to the number of reports we've been hearing from WV. Many have said they won't vote for a black man and many still think he's a muslim.

I think you get the idea when I say that state has a higher concentration of low-information voters.

I mean just look at these idiots....

The rest look like good Dems supporting their candidate at a political rally. Unless, you just mean that they reek of "white trash" West Virginian? Since my degree is from a West Virginia college, can I still qualify as a high information voter?

one is "low-information" ... got it.

Hey, you aren't an elitist tho, right?

Just because one has a college degree, does not mean they are necessarily anything special. W has a degree, right? Lots of assholes have degrees, and lots of very intelligent people do not. Fact.

so much for their college intelligence

You can't ask for data! Here we just believe whatever reinforces our existing worldview.

Cali_"Democrat" (yeah, right)

Now that is how we should choose a commander in chief!:sarcasm:

and of course lapel pins need to be counted for extra points or demerits or whatever!:bounce:

After all, what better way to test a leader than to see if s/he can walk a tightrope? :)

n't

They maeke a concerted effort to keep people under their control.

And maybe they'll watch.

but I also know this would never happen.... because they're too stupid to realize that I'm talking about them.

I'd call it a high school Civics exam. And they should make it mandatory that HS students work on Election day (Of course i also think Election Day should be a National/Paid Holiday).


:)

More than half of the people on DU would flunk!!

Millions and millions of low-information voters.

You'd think the Democratic party would have thought of that and left us some electable candidates...

"That's not enough, madam, we need a majority!" - Adlai Stevenson, in response to a woman who told him "You have the vote of every thinking person!"

appears at a campaign event wearing a teal pants suit, I'm voting against him.

unaccepting of people who are racist/homophobic/sexist, etc. I guess I am supposed to be cool with people who are hateful.

"You can hate who you wanna and I can hate who I wanna, that's what makes 'merika great!"

But if you expect me to accept people's determination to keep civil liberties from other people and treat them with violence, then I'm not willing to let that slide.

It's the lack of information processing capability.

It's not just lack of ability or lack of intelligence, it's the deliberate closing of minds, the willful refusal to learn or understand, and the pride they take in shutting themselves away from reason.

That kind of behavior just drives me nuts.

The low informed/Fox news voters are ruining America

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Uh, we went down that route in the South once....didn't work out too well, in fact, worked out so poorly that there are now provisions in the constitution preventing this

Those are the people who make lying political commercials pay off for lying politicians.

Without their chronic ignorance, that kind of subterfuge would not be possible. Anyone who doesn't know who they are voting for a month before the election in November should not vote. Late deciders are idiots.

:wank:

and, what with working and raising families and all, have little time or incentive to go beyond those sources . . . many, if not most, believe that our "news" sources are accurate and unbiased, because they pretty much were in the past . . . they don't understand -- and probably don't want to know -- how uninformed, misinformed, and ill-informed they actually are because of how they get their information . . .

Racial or gender prejudices are unacceptable. But dammit, bowling is the true measure of a man.

The only problem with Obama's game was he didn't get drunk first. Everyone knows beer improves your game.

They vote for the "cute guy" or the "tall guy" or the "young looking guy", or the "smart looking guy", or the "friendly-funny guy".

I am afraid that the vast majority of Americans are too lazy to do their homework and study up on the candidates.. They have abdicated their responsibility to the tv people.. They just want the candidates "shown to them" and "explained to them"... and after the ugly/non-telegenic ones are weeded out, they will choose..:(

I am bigoted against you. I know people who actually believe the crap they read in the anti-Obama email they get. Idiots.

Who cares what your own criteria is for voting for someone? Your own biases don't represent those of every voter, nor should they.

You just don't like democracy.