if it all comes down to how delegates or super delegates vote?
This is not democracy. This is crap!!!!!

I was listening to Talk of the Nation today and there was a segment on super delegates and my leading question was not cleared up.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18482789

I know other people feel this same way.

1/28/2008 3:33:41 PM

you should revolt

1/28/2008 3:34:16 PM

Once again you can vote for the least crappy, of two crappy candidates.

1/28/2008 3:34:24 PM

YOU SERIOUSLY MADE THIS THREAD, WHAT ARE YOU A RETARD

1/28/2008 3:34:27 PM

^

1/28/2008 3:36:24 PM

god damnit how about a spoiler alert

talk of the nation and ALL THINGS CONSIDERED are on at different times here

DONT YOU KNOW SHIT ABOUT NPR YOU FUCKING MONGOLOID

JESUS FUCK

ps

message_topic.aspx?topic=500528 - PROOF!!1

1/28/2008 3:36:30 PM

RAWR RAWR RAWR

1/28/2008 3:37:22 PM

SRY JACKLEG!!!

1/28/2008 3:39:27 PM

punchmonk - we'll need smart girls like you around for when the revolution starts.

1/28/2008 3:39:49 PM

Presidential candidates Jack Johnson and John Jackson.

1/28/2008 3:41:21 PM

You should have hidden the address to that link because two things come to mind when I see the letters NPR in sequence:

1) Liberal Propaganda and,
2) Liberal Propaganda

Their sole purpose on the radio is to cry about how unfair life is and try to get listeners to do the same.

1/28/2008 3:46:02 PM

well, they did not do that this time.

I have been listening/reading different things other than just NPR to try to figure out why we are called a democracy when the popular vote counts for NOTHING!

[Edited on January 28, 2008 at 3:48 PM. Reason : ...]

1/28/2008 3:47:09 PM

^^

[Edited on January 28, 2008 at 3:47 PM. Reason : .]

1/28/2008 3:47:09 PM

1/28/2008 3:47:24 PM

I know we are supposed to Rock the Vote or what ever other crap campaign there is out there but why should I if delegates already know who they are voting for and it does not change even when the conventions come together.

That to me does not make sense.

[Edited on January 28, 2008 at 3:54 PM. Reason : ...]

1/28/2008 3:50:27 PM

you can thank the Democratic Convention of 1968

1/28/2008 3:51:32 PM

well, technically a direct democracy is the direct election of the president.

The way we do things now is a democracy, just not a direct one.

^ '72 is when all the reforms took place, right?

1/28/2008 3:52:29 PM

well, yea, cause of the events of 68

1/28/2008 3:53:22 PM

damn hippies

1/28/2008 3:54:24 PM

i don't want to vote because ron paul won't be on the ballot and he's the only one i like

1/28/2008 3:55:33 PM

I thought Ron Paul was still on there. He has a few delegates backing him.

1/28/2008 4:00:27 PM

in the primaries.

i'm totally voting in those.

1/28/2008 4:01:19 PM

i just love how we're one party away from being not even needing to bother with a vote

give our country some more time and we'll streamline this voting process to the point where we won't even need to vote




edit: i dont count 3rd parties due to the insane loopholes theyre asked to jump through just to get on the ballot in most states

[Edited on January 28, 2008 at 4:54 PM. Reason : .]

1/28/2008 4:53:19 PM

no matter how they slice it, your vote doesn't matter.

1/28/2008 5:09:57 PM

^ that is exactly what I am thinking

1/28/2008 8:32:40 PM

Quote :

"This is not democracy. This is crap!!!!!"

1/28/2008 8:36:11 PM

oligarchy of the rich

1/28/2008 8:36:34 PM

Quote :

"to figure out why we are called a democracy"

well we arent called a democracy on anything official. we are a representative democracy or a republic

1/28/2008 8:36:35 PM

it only makes sense that in a country with 300 million people, one vote doesn't make a lot of difference--if you really want to influence an election, you have to persuade groups of people to vote for something en masse

1/28/2008 8:37:55 PM

at the very least, your vote negates someone else's vote

at most, it'll actually count

1/28/2008 8:38:15 PM

But I think all this just makes your vote count even more.

1/28/2008 8:43:20 PM