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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 12:17 PM Original message |
Poll results from the New Yorker about the Wall Street Protesters. |
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Kurmudgeon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
1. "Did you vote in the 2010 midterm elections?" Over half said no, better vote next time! |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 12:21 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Or perhaps they didn't vote because they've seen that voting hasn't helped them in the past. |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 12:23 PM Response to Reply #2 |
4. And not voting helps...how? |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 12:27 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. What good does it do? |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 12:32 PM Response to Reply #6 |
10. I got a good lesson 1 yr. Our local school levy failed by 11 votes. Midterm election |
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Cats Against Frist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 01:03 PM Response to Reply #2 |
13. You'd think you might just want to hedge your bets with that one n/t |
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Lost-in-FL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 12:47 PM Response to Reply #1 |
11. I used to think that way. |
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stevenleser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 01:11 PM Response to Reply #11 |
16. The problem with that choice is that no one cares about your choice except the winner of the |
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Lost-in-FL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 02:54 PM Response to Reply #16 |
22. That is why I keep voting. |
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ProudToBeBlueInRhody (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 02:47 PM Response to Reply #1 |
21. THIS |
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uppityperson (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 12:22 PM Response to Original message |
3. Most telling part for me is less than 1/2 voted 2010. |
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xiamiam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 12:25 PM Response to Original message |
5. oh yeah..and according to someone here 83% liberals support obama.. |
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stevenleser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 12:29 PM Response to Reply #5 |
7. If you poll a tea party protest, you will get 0% Obama support and 100% wanting a Radical Right Wing |
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TBF (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 12:29 PM Response to Original message |
8. Burn it down - best answer in the whole lot. nt |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 12:30 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Yeah. That guy has the right idea. |
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stevenleser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 12:57 PM Response to Reply #9 |
12. Wall St. is 8 blocks long. What is meant by "burn it down?" The street itself? Particular buildings? |
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white_wolf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 01:03 PM Response to Reply #12 |
14. I'm pretty sure he meant it as a figure of speech. |
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stevenleser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 01:10 PM Response to Reply #14 |
15. This isn't the only similar comment along those lines I have seen. I saw several where |
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xiamiam (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 02:45 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. it's easy to criticize..they've held a conscious protest thus far..gotta hand it to them. nt |
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stevenleser (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 11:02 AM Response to Reply #20 |
26. And I agree with that and the general sentiment that the perfect is the enemy of the good |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 01:14 PM Response to Original message |
17. Looks like they're fed up with "business as usual" and "bipartisanship". K&R |
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socialist_n_TN (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 02:02 PM Response to Original message |
18. DAMN! Over a third of all people |
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Fire Walk With Me (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 02:11 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. Chris Hedges recently wrote that (IIRC) France used to hang speculators. |
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Hosnon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 02:57 PM Response to Original message |
23. Capitalism sure does seem inherently immortal... nt. |
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Rex (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 03:00 PM Response to Original message |
24. I'd like to see them ask these questions to the Cats of Wall Street. |
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ChiciB1 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-04-11 03:01 PM Response to Original message |
25. Color Me Cynical... Maybe This Is All Made Up. Who Knows? OR Maybe |
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