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In reply to the discussion: This election is a binary event. Calling for Obama's defeat *IS* advocating for Romney's victory. [View all]Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Obama supporter who criticizes liberals. The post said 'we did not have a primary this year'. Of course if 'we' is the Democratic Party we most certainly had a primary. I voted in the Oregon Primary, including my third vote for Obama. The 'most ardent supporter' did not even know there was a Primary, and allowed the other candidates and questions to go without their vote, and they took one vote away from the President's count in that State, where the turnout among Democrats was low as can be. I'm a liberal. And I vote. My State is blue, my Rep and Senators and Gov and Sec of State are Democrats, our turn out in 2010 set records, while the 'most ardents' in redder states did not bother to vote at all. "We had no Primary' they say....and yet they will turn on a dime and declare that their lack of a vote is 'support' while the actual activism and voting of anyone critical of any policy is 'hate'. If I were a politician, I would want votes, not rhetoric. Criticize me and vote for me is better than praise me and take a pass on the actual vote casting thingy...