National Idol (gag) and the voting.

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According to the news, the "national idol" won by over a million votes. According to the news, the over all vote for "national idol" was 60 million votes.

According to the news, the number of voters in the democratic primary was 19 million.

Is there any potential for Americans to cease looking for entertainment and get around to the responsibility and privilege of voting?

I mean, is a singer going to decide what happens to human life in America and around the world? Is a singer going to decide who has a job? Is a singer going to decide whether we are all forced to permit right wing religious zealots to have our way in public schools? Is a singer going to decide who gets taxpayer funds to send American jobs overseas and not pay taxes because they use off shore banking? Is a singer going to decide who lives and who dies in the only industrialized nation that has no universal health care?

I realize that politics and entertainment are mixed, but why can we only find democratic radio on this site? Why is the only viable opposition party to a dictatorship, a lunatic dictatorship, curtailed.

Who dares to sponsor? Come on.

All Gore yelled, and Dean yelled, and Kerry is putting people to sleep.

Anybody know his speech writer? I realize the endless blah was an informational thing, but, dear God (if there be one) there were dozens of times he could have built on his statements. And he did NOT.

We need passion.

Information-ally, Kerry is the best, but building passion to give a damn about his programs is a weak suit.

I do hope he picks a passionate VP candidate.

[Eric J in MN]

1. The name of the show is "American Idol" nt

nt

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6. SO?

Is America a nation of entertainment junkie, or do Americans, especially Democratic Americans want to get off their bitching and vote or what?

You want America to become a one party controlled nation? You votes count. Democratic votes count. Stop bitching and start voting.

If you aren't registered, get registered. If you think your vote is useless, think again. From the ground up, take back America.

School Boards, councilmen, state legislators, mayors, governors, dog catcher. For pete's sake get registered and vote.

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2. well, I think you can vote more than once in American Idol...

if that was allowed in the elections, I'm sure over 60 million votes would have been casted. Of course with BBV, you never know... :shrug:

[crimson333]

3. some people were voting 400 times or more

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4. Many democrats are not even voting once.

Can we possibly get with it?

[Generator]

5. Three things

They can vote as many times as they want.

No age (or any other)requirements, many(60%I'd say at least) are under 18.

IF we made voting easier, made it a national holiday, or did it by mail like us smarties do in Oregon, maybe, just maybe more would vote.

[Cheswick2.0]

7. it's a horrible show

but do you really want those same people voting in real elections?

[Generator]

8. Oh elitism-yes I do want the teenagers who grow up that watched this

show to vote. Because they like to watch young singers doesn't mean they are morally inferior to you.

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9. Elitism?

How about not being taught to diddle our teenagers, who will be affected by this election, with the concept that entertainment is what it's all about? How about teaching some responsibility for their government rather than their entertainment.

If being Elitist is considering the vote, the personal vote, the necessity of being important, then, by all means, permit teenagers to go on to vote in ignorance. Let them think that I would certainly hate to hang such elitism as thinking with their own minds, and paying attention to the future, their future, on our entertained youth.

OMG. One should actually be shamed for being encouraged to think?

We, the people, means THEM in the future.

Pardon the hell out of me for thinking. It is so LIMITED to elitists!

[NicoleM]

10. What everybody else said plus

the way the primaries were stacked, it was set up not to have very many people vote. By the time the MN caucus rolled around, Kerry pretty much had the thing locked up. I still voted, but I'm sure turnout would have been higher in the later primary states had the nominee not already been decided.