What kind of political party relies on people NOT voting

[billyoc]

to secure electoral victories? How can this be one of the leading national political parties?

This will be my one question in the upcoming year. There'll be plenty of people clamoring for indictments of neocon war criminals, telecom divestiture, 9/11 re-investigation, environmental issues, etc.

I think it's time we shine a little sunlight on these vampires, and see what happens.

BTW, I'm not trying to dilute any GOTV efforts, by any means, I've just seen so many stories of voter intimidation and disenfranchisement that I wanted to mention it.

2 days left, time to turn it on. GOTV!

[ixion]

1. a facist party

relies on people not voting, or voting out of fear.

[Bronco69]

2. I was lurking over at free republic a few days ago

and some of the posters there were all giddy because rain was forecast for parts of the northeast. I didn't understand it either. Why the hell would you get excited when the only thing that helps your party is when people don't vote?

[ithacan]

3. this was the basis of white power in the South and elsewhere!

Just look at the confederacy. Just look at the Dixiecrats. Just look at the apartheid regime in South Africa...

That's the kind of values that prevent people from voting.

Evil pigs who can't accept that their values and policies are wrong.

[Nay]

10. That, and the fact for many of these bastards, it's just a big game.

They're playing with our lives, yes, but to them, it's a big Sim City game where they can move us around at will.

[dirtyduck]

4. just saw Clinton in New Mexico

and he had a great quote about that fact... something to the effect of "if your choices are between one party who wants people to go vote, and one party who doesn't want people to vote, you better choose the one that wants you to vote"

[billyoc]

6. Wow, that's great!

I was starting to think people were just going to accept it as a fact of life, that one of the national parties really relies on people not voting. I feel better now. Thanks! :)

[Confident]

5. an unpopular party

[IronLionZion]

7. a party that doesn't need votes to win

because they know there are the minority in democgraphics but somehow managed to sieze control of all branches of government

they are fascists, pure and simple. Once they get powerful enough, they will just not allow democrats and minorities to vote....except radical right-wing cubans maybe

[rndmprsn]

8. REPUBLICAN

[Doodlesweaver]

9. Vote for the candidate who wants people to vote

Yesterday at a rally in AZ Bill Clinton said (to paraphrase): If there's one political candidate who wants you to vote and another political candidate who's trying to suppress your vote, you'd better vote for the candidate who *wants* you to vote!

[tjdee]

11. That's why it's SO important to register NEW voters.

If 80-90 % of Americans bothered to vote, we wouldn't even HAVE a Republican party anymore.

I'd bet on that.

[Cerridwen]

12. The kind of party that thinks people are incapable of

thinking for themselves and that conversely, if those same people >do< think for themselves they don't support the propaganda put forth by said party.

I sincerely hope that the Federal Elections Commission will launch an all out investigation into the repub party and its practices in U.S. wide elections; state, local and federal. As well as the complicity of Secretaries of State, judges, state and local elections boards, and all businesses hired as contractors in the voter registration process.