Politics and the internet

[LynneSin]

<sigh>

I really try not to get involved with these online debates especially with the Lieberman/Lamont race. But I see some really bad assumptions being made that overlook a very very very important and many times overlooked concept. We, the people who use the computer for our guide to all things political - we are the minority. We've got an online poll for Lieberman/Lamont where Lamont is clearly in the lead and now DUers are thinking "WooHoo - Lookout it's going to be Sen Lamont in December". What kind of crazy assumption is that?

Reality is this - we're a special breed of political junkies who enjoy using the internet to spread our passion; I'm just as guilty as the next person. Hell, I believed that from everything I read on the internet that Howard Dean was going to be our next president too. Boy was I made a fool.

Every year, millions of people go to the polls without once glancing at a political forum or checking out an online poll. They make their decisions based on what they see on TV, what they know, what they believe and what they learn through realms outside of the internet. It's not that these people don't own computers, they just don't use the computer in the way that we do. As I've posted many times - computers are there for games, sports scores, music downloads and polls. Rarely is politics lumped into that.

So please remember that it's not your fellow DUers you need to convince to vote for a certain candidate. More than likely you're talking to people who don't even live in that state. All the posting, bitching, debating and flaming that we can do in regards to Lamont/Lieberman means crap unless you happened to have a valid voter registration card in the state of Connecticut. Ultimately it's who THEY want to have support them in Connecticut, not who we here at DU want.

That doesn't mean we can't do our part to help out the cause. I'm a Delaware resident but I'll probably do most of my campaign work in Pennsylvania where I feel that my time making the calls & knocking on the door will serve more purpose with getting good candidates elected (and for me a bad democrat is still better than a good republican).

That is all!

[wyldwolf]

1. very well put

[RethugAssKicker]

2. Yeah...... but, its got to start somewhere !

We are that "somewhere"