Davis Square Area Presidential Poll

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[Poll #1118346]

Comments

Re: To all young people: Please Vote!!

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Um, the youth vote DID turn out in higher numbers than they did in the last election, according to the breakdowns I've seen. Obama just didn't do as well in NH; honestly considering the nature of New Hampshire it's impressive he came in second and clobbered Edwards by such a margin.

Honestly, this whole "lecturing the youth" thing kind of annoys me. There are plenty of OLD people sitting on their duffs too, y'know.

Re: To all young people: Please Vote!!

[grapefruiteater.livejournal.com]

Yes, I am really sick of being condescended to as either a "young voter" or a "woman voter." I turned 18 in 2000, so this is my third presidential election. I'm familiar with the whole voting thing, and I don't want anyone making assumptions about how I'm going to vote based on my age or gender, or worse, pandering to me because of my age or gender.

Re: To all young people: Please Vote!!

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Man, you have it a LOT worse than I do. Nobody on the liberal side tells you "Hey! You have a penis! Vote for this guy! He likes your penis, and we don't mean he's a homosexual, not that there's anything wrong with that or it should any way influence your vote!"

Re: To all young people: Please Vote!!

[grapefruiteater.livejournal.com]

I'm considering crawling under a rock and coming out the day before the election so I can just vote and get it over with.

Re: To all young people: Please Vote!!

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

That might be reasonable, otherwise some twit on Super Tuesday might stick a microphone in your face and ask if you voted for Hillary because you were a woman.

If in the unlikely event I'm interviewed, I'm thinking of saying that I didn't vote for Hillary because I'm a woman...yet.

Re: To all young people: Please Vote!!

[eeyorecol.livejournal.com]

We were watching the CNN coverage last night, and someone mentioned in a report that the South Carolina primary will be interesting because 50% of the Democrats are African-American. One of the talking heads said, "Yes, but that then means that the other half is probably white. That's something that should be taken into consideration." Then it lead to a discussion in my house about what is someone supposed to do if she is a black female voter, since they keep putting people into a single category...

Re: To all young people: Please Vote!!

[thetathx1138.livejournal.com]

Write in Oprah? :::ducks:::

Re: To all young people: Please Vote!!

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

This morning CNN was saying, "Well maybe African Americans in South Carolina will vote for Clinton since the Clintons do well with African-Americans. Or, maybe they'll vote for Obama, since he is an African American." That was it; that was the enite discussion about voting in South Carolina.

Um, my bad, I didn't know black people in South Carolina weren't allowed to vote on people based on their VIEWS. Honestly! The whole discussion seemed so narrow to me.

Re: To all young people: Please Vote!!

[ron_newman]

Umm, shouldn't they have at least mentioned that John Edwards is from South Carolina and used to represent a neighboring state in the Senate?

Re: To all young people: Please Vote!!

[closetalker11.livejournal.com]

Yes, they should have!!! It was frustrating to hear. Although, I only had it on for about 10 minutes, so in fairness, it could have been discussed later.

Re: To all young people: Please Vote!!

[grapefruiteater.livejournal.com]

Seems unlikely, based on the several hours of CNN I watched last night. It was all like that, and honestly, NPR wasn't much better.

Re: To all young people: Please Vote!!

[chivesthebutler.livejournal.com]

well, south carolina doesn't have as long a history of bucking the trend as new hampshire does, so it might really boil down to just that.

Re: To all young people: Please Vote!!

[ifotismeni]

yea, the woman voter thing is getting old. hearing the hillary coverage and talk about women voters turning out... same thing with black voters and obama. we're not monoliths FFS.