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dmbfan
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Konglishman
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No, I say bad!!! These people are protesting against health care reform. The truth of the matter is that they are protesting on the basis of misconceptions. So, at best, they are misguided.
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ontheway
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Location: Somewhere under the rainbow...
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| Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:53 am Post subject: Re: March in D.C. |
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| dmbfan wrote: |
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1213056/Up-million-march-US-Capitol-protest-Obamas-spending-tea-party-demonstration.html
GOOD!!!!!!!
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Millions of people are finally waking up to the proven fact that:
All of the world's economic and social problems are the result of socialism. |
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Hater Depot
Joined: 29 Mar 2005
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| Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:13 pm Post subject: |
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http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/09/the-meaning-of-912.php
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There are about 300 million people in the United States of America of whom about 130 million voted last November. Of them, 60 million voted for John McCain, handing Barack Obama a solid though not overwhelming victory. Some of those people actually liked Obama, but just liked McCain more (both men had approval ratings over 50 percent on election day). But the median McCain voter really disliked Obama from the beginning. And some people disliked Obama even more than that median McCain voter. Indeed, about 60,000 people should have hated Obama three standard deviations more than the typical McCain voter. And apparently 30,000 people is a �generous� estimate of the tea party turnout.
To get 30,000 people to turn out to protest Obamanomics is a pretty impressive logistical/organizing achievement. But what does it really tell us? Nobody ran headlines the day after election day saying �MILLIONS OF AMERICANS REALLY DISLIKE BARACK OBAMA� but it was true then and it�s still true today. But what�s the significance of this fact? I recall some non-tiny anti-war rallies all across the country in the fall of 2001. But it�s a big country, and every statistically valid survey indicates that at that time both George W. Bush and the invasion of Afghanistan were hugely popular. If you want to know how people feel about Barack Obama, you can find out that a slight majority approve of the job he�s doing. But on the specific issue of the economy, he�s in slight negative territory. |
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bucheon bum
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:55 pm Post subject: |
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| I was in the area. There was no way there was "up to 2 million" people there. 100K? Sure, maybe. Hell, maybe as many as 200K, but no way it was even close to a million. |
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mises
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Location: retired
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| Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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| During the anti-war protests in 2003 the media didn't cover them and to the extent that they did, they focused on the hard left idiots in drag and on stilts. This marginalized the whole anti-war movement. Any attempt to protest all this economic nonsense will receive the same treatment from GE (sorry, CNBC, MSNBC, NBC) and the rest. |
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bacasper
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| Posted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 8:33 pm Post subject: |
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| ^ What he said. |
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