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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

I had hope of there being younger more educated voters becoming involved 
when we heard the same thing during Kerry's campaign.

Well, the problem was that the younger generation seems to have a very short 
attention span.  They seem to like the, what?, novelty maybe, of the 
primaries, particularly caucases (that one's a no brainer, a caucus is a 
party, party on).  Less than half seem to have done any voting in the actual 
election and even less in any elections since.

I was very disappointed!

Lynda
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From: <paxamicus AT earthlink.net>

I was thinking more long term than this election. I'm hoping today's
kids are going to become thoughtful responsible educated voters of
tomorrow.  Like I said, other than being anxious about the next
President's appts to the SC, it's pretty much all the dang same. It
might BE all the dang same, really. I hope not.


> > I look at this
> > stupid primary and the only thing I feel is sickened by the waste of
>
>
> [sigh]  I suppose I ought to keep quiet and quit being a broken
> record.  On
> the other hand, how am I to become famous for Jamesethusian
> Economics.  Ya
> never know, do they give a Nobel Prize for annoying people??
>
> Just because you don't spend the money on the campaign, it doesn't
> mean there
> is that much money to spend on anything else.  I wonder what it
> would take to
> break the ironclad mantra that money is something real??  Right now,
> as you
> have heard, people are having a hard time buying bulk staples such
> as rice.
> Let's suppose that to relieve that, we took ALL the campaign money
> and gave it
> to people to so they could buy more rice.  What would happen?  Would
> more rice
> suddenly appear in the warehouses and silos?
>
> No, the amount of rice would stay the same and its price would shoot
> through
> the roof.
>   </HTML>



No, I'm with you. I wasn't really talking about the individual dollars
or the legality of political donations, but more about the whole
process. I was listening to the opinions about how the SC decision
today played out, the one about having to reveal personal funds spent
on campaigns, et all, and how campaigns work around the restrictions
put in place, and I am just amazed at how Byzantine we have become.

Celia
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