Comments on: I’ve decided whom to vote for https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/ Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:31:09 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: Chris Hanson https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/#comment-3556 Wed, 06 Feb 2008 02:31:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/#comment-3556 I’m glad to see that you’re voting Obama. He’s the real hope. When it comes down to it, the politics today is about the future. It’s about my generation. That said, I’ll let a song from the sixties make my point for me:Come mothers and fathersThroughout the landAnd don’t criticizeWhat you can’t understandYour sons and your daughtersAre beyond your commandYour old road isRapidly agin’.Please get out of the new oneIf you can’t lend your handFor the times they are a-changin’.

]]> By: Anne Gilbert https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/#comment-3555 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 21:31:02 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/#comment-3555 Greg, you’re my man! I mean, you were sensible and decided to vote for Obama because of the problems with the “Billary hate machine”(not that they won’t try something on Obama).As for RK and his “tax and spend” nonsense, he should take a real good look at the current deficit, particularly when it started. It was not with Clinton and the Democrats. I seem to recall we had a surplus then.Anne G

]]> By: Leon https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/#comment-3554 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 19:00:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/#comment-3554

Hmmm…which tax and spender to choose?? Great choices. I wonder if all of these promises will actually be kept once they realize that it could actually backfire when they start taking money out of the middle-class pocket – because, ultimately the rich know how to put their money away.

Nice one, RK. A tax-and-spender as opposed to a borrow-and-spender? Remind me which is the party of fiscal responsibility?As for taking money out of the middle-class pocket–the Republican administrations starting with Reagan have been doing that very handily.

]]> By: CS https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/#comment-3553 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:51:44 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/#comment-3553 I get the feeling that Obama might do better than Clinton at getting apathetic voters to actually show up and vote. On the campus I work at, the Obama supporters are out in force today, but I have yet to see a single Clinton supporter. Are those polls comparing Clinton/Obama vs. McCain/Romney telephone polls that poll everybody (including those who have an opinion, but won’t actually make the trip to the voting booth)?

]]> By: rev_matt_y https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/#comment-3552 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 11:16:24 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/#comment-3552 I’ve been trying to work out the math on this as well. While I think Clinton is more qualified, the right wing smear machine has such an unbalanced and irrational hatred of her that there’s no way she’ll survive the general election. Frankly I am quite sure McCain will win in Nov because he’ll be a white guy running against someone who is not a white guy. This is America, after all.

]]> By: J-Dog https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/#comment-3551 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:37:21 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/#comment-3551 Ha ha! I live in Chicago, so I get to vote for both of them, plus I am going to vote Rep and vote for Huckabee, just to really stick it to those Bush-loving losers.

]]> By: iRobot https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/#comment-3550 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:27:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/#comment-3550 RK, tax and spend. Where have you been for 28 years. Repubs tax the middle class plenty, they just cut taxes on the rich and they spend way, way plenty. Whats the national debt at now? BTW taxing and spending is the way it should be done. See you get the money, then you spend it on things like roads, schools and medical insurance for all. We dont do that in this country, thats why our roads are a disaster, our schools are crumbling and millions dont have health insurance. Thats why the EU will eat our lunch as we slowly sink into disrepair.

]]> By: Isaac https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/#comment-3549 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:26:03 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/#comment-3549 RK, it’s funny you use “tax and spender” as a slur. More thoughtful people accept that it’s how government revenue is supposed to work.I guess George Bush’s “fiscally conservative” borrow-and-waste policy is a touch too responsible for you.

]]> By: Karen James https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/#comment-3548 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:23:31 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/#comment-3548 Okay, not wanting to just rely on anecdote (because isn’t that what creationists do?), I looked up the most recent poll on this issue. The Washington Post reported the results of a poll conducted yesterday in which respondents were asked, if the election were held today and the Republican was “R” and the Democrat was “D”, who would you vote for? Here are the data:If R = McCain and D = Clinton:McCain 49%Clinton 46%If R = McCain and D = Obama:McCain 46%Obama 49%So, looks like our anecdotal evidence does indeed speak to a more statistically substantiated claim, that as of now, Obama would beat McCain but Clinton wouldn’t.Here’s the poll:http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/postpoll_020308.html?hpid=topnews

]]> By: RK https://gregladen.com/blog/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/#comment-3547 Tue, 05 Feb 2008 08:15:57 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2008/02/05/ive-decided-whom-to-vote-for/#comment-3547 Hmmm…which tax and spender to choose?? Great choices. I wonder if all of these promises will actually be kept once they realize that it could actually backfire when they start taking money out of the middle-class pocket – because, ultimately the rich know how to put their money away.

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