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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:09 PM Original message |
With more war and no healthcare, can we POSSIBLY hold the youth vote? |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:10 PM Response to Original message |
1. but, but, they are getting a mandate to purchase insurance |
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timeforpeace (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 12:02 AM Response to Reply #1 |
24. No worries, we had em at Cash For Clunkers. Throw in Cash For Old Appliances, they're ours forever. |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:10 PM Response to Original message |
2. You're jumping the gun. |
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IndianaGreen (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:15 PM Response to Reply #2 |
5. brought to you by the same people that said the war would be over by 2011 |
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tridim (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:17 PM Response to Reply #5 |
6. Why are you talking about the future in the past tense? |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:18 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I thought I stroked out there for a minute. |
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Generator (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:13 PM Response to Original message |
3. I say maybe we get a draft going |
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SemiCharmedQuark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:14 PM Response to Reply #3 |
4. You want a draft? |
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Lilith Velkor (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 12:05 AM Response to Reply #4 |
25. We have to send kids to die to teach them that sending kids to die is wrong. |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 10:40 PM Response to Reply #3 |
12. I think that a draft would end both wars and end all speculation about any others. |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:19 PM Response to Original message |
8. Maybe it's all tied together? |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:29 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. I believe the old phrase was "Bread And Circuses". |
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Kdillard (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
10. Wow so without knowing the details you jump to hyperbolic conclusions. |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 09:41 PM Response to Reply #10 |
11. We'll never hear what the CBO says, unless it supports the results the corporatists want. |
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frazzled (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 10:52 PM Response to Original message |
13. If you give them free wi-fi |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 11:10 PM Response to Reply #13 |
18. That's what escalation means |
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frazzled (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 11:29 PM Response to Reply #18 |
22. I think you're stuck in a time warp |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 12:53 AM Response to Reply #22 |
26. You're right about the draft. |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 10:54 PM Response to Original message |
14. Nope - and every other category will be low in participation too. nt |
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Perky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 11:02 PM Response to Original message |
15. Of course we can |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 11:04 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. They may just give up and go away |
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amandabeech (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 01:01 AM Response to Reply #16 |
27. A lot of us stayed and worked again in 1976. |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 11:08 PM Response to Reply #15 |
17. Why should they bother when Dems are pissing away their future... |
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jefferson_dem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 11:12 PM Response to Original message |
19. Honestly, young voters don't really give a rip about healthcare. |
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polichick (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 11:13 PM Response to Reply #19 |
20. Not true - many can't get career jobs right out of school in this economy... |
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girl_interrupted (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 11:45 PM Response to Reply #20 |
23. Not to mention trying to pay their student loans |
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Ken Burch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Dec-08-09 11:13 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. Well, I did mention the war as well |
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Vidar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 07:48 AM Response to Original message |
28. No reason why we should. |
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freddie mertz (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 07:50 AM Response to Original message |
29. It's already gone, I suspect. |
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old mark (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 08:18 AM Response to Original message |
30. I doubt there would be much of a "youth vote" anyway - it was pretty |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 08:21 AM Response to Original message |
31. It's gone beyond the youth vote. They better start worrying about the geezer vote, too. |
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treestar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 01:30 PM Response to Original message |
32. There isn't more war |
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Drunken Irishman (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 01:31 PM Response to Original message |
33. I don't expect it to be any different than 2008. |
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Jennicut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Dec-09-09 01:34 PM Response to Original message |
34. I am 33. Not really in the youth vote anymore but I do have friends in their 20's. |
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