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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 07:03 AM
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I think I may have an answer to the 30% of Americans who will support Bush and believe anything
http://www.suntimes.com/news/quicktakes/458908,CST-NWS-qt08.article

29 percent of Americans do not have access to the Internet and do not plan to get it.
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Ioo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 07:06 AM
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1. 30% of People Also think that Jesus will come back in 10 years...
So... these people WILL believe anything
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youngdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 07:23 AM
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2. 30% have an IQ below 85, quaintly described as "dull"
So, there's that.

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mwb970 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 07:48 AM
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5. Everyone with 100+ IQ is anti-Bush by now.
Bush's pathetic approval rating suggests that he is at essentially zero approval among thinking Americans blessed with normal brain functions. Not all of us are so blessed, and some percentage of the folks who are not will continue to be taken in by lies from Fox Noise, the Dick, etc.

I guess the neocon war-mongers and the super-greedy super-rich are with Bush too, but what percentage can these account for? No, I think most of the remaining dead-end Bush support is from that trusty right-leaning group, the Stupid.
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genie_weenie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 09:07 AM
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9. I do think that is a slap in the face of those
who are mentally challenged. Those who support bush don't do so because of mental limitations but becuase a concerted effort has been made to lie to the American people throughout their educational process.

K-12 schools do not teach people to think and instill in them the "greatness" that is America and all those who are in positions of authority.

Additionally, if God be with us, who could be against us? Preachers from certain christian sects continue to rally round the flag and promote this brutality as a noble cause.

Many members of the media will back bush because of the money bush's policies are funnelling to the proper people.

The IRaq Occupation has always been about controlling the US people and transfering the wealth of nations into the hands of the plutocratic establishment. And if that means rampant lying about US goals and interests, deaths of thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousnads of "others" so be it.
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ThomWV Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 07:24 AM
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3. I think that number is down to something more like 25% now
And dropping daily ...
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earthlover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 07:30 AM
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4. 30% of Americans abuse alchohol....
....30% of Americans cannot remember what year 9/11 happened....
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nevergiveup Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 08:03 AM
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6. 30% of the American people
would vote for Charles Manson if he someway ended up with the Republican nomination.
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Ian David Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 08:35 AM
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7. Maybe they can be convinced Bush is The Antichrist?
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Mend Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jul-08-07 08:50 AM
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8. I know one....she is a 64 year old divorced Catholic woman...no kids, goes
to mass weekly, does clerical work for state agency, has good health insurance and a steady job for life, then paid retirement. Classical working class, high-school graduate. The Catholic church told her to vote for bush as he would end abortion. She is profoundly concrete in her thinking and untouched personally by republicanism. Even her drive to work is short, so gas prices don't get to her. She goes on-line but doesn't read political things. She is ok jack so what's not to like about her bush.
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