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butterfly77 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-24-08 09:51 AM
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The media loves to characterize us into groups which do you fit?
(a) gay,rural,blue collar worker.
(b) black,catholic,bowler,who drinks beer.
(c) white, woman, catholic, bowler,gay
(d) young,gay,beer drinker,who bowls,and is black
(e)lunch box catholic,hispanic,bowler,soccer mom
(f) elderly,white gay male,who lives in a rural area,who drinks beer,
(g)Asian,male,christian,gay,
(h) jewish,gay,female,beer drinking, soccer mom


These are a few of the examples of how they try to label us as though some in each category aren't in another and some believe this garbage and vote based on what the media tells them..I could add more but you know what I mean..
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Warpy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-24-08 10:04 AM
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1. Politics by focus group DOES NOT WORK
Look at how close the last two presidential elections have been, close enough to have been stolen by the fascists.

When are these admen going to figure this out? When is the PARTY going to figure this out?

Focus groups might help detergent companies design packaging for laundry soap that's just like every other laundry soap, but they are piss poor when it comes to "packaging" a candidate. They just manage to make the candidate so bland and uninteresting that people yawn and go home rather than making the effort to VOTE.
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-24-08 10:05 AM
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2. I'm part of the group that thinks the media really sucks. nt
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Elspeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-24-08 10:16 AM
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3. I'm the special part of bemildred's group that thinks the media should f&*% itself.
We sacrifice a major newspaper at dawn.
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-24-08 10:58 AM
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14. With a rusty sprinkler head. nt
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Elspeth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-24-08 01:47 PM
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15. Hey, that's way too kind
Something spiked and covered in bacteria would be better.
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lifesbeautifulmagic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-24-08 10:19 AM
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4. they need to fire all the consultants and put that money into
getting 2 things out

our message
the vote
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Echo In Light Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-24-08 10:22 AM
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5. Musician Under Achiever Tattooed Bearded Be-spectacled Long Haired Friend of Jesus
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hyphenate Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-24-08 10:22 AM
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6. I refuse to be
quantified. :)
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Indenturedebtor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-24-08 10:24 AM
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7. Hah
I fit into the "My wife, myself, my children, and my childrens children will not rely on the MSM for information" group. Boy they were afraid of losing out to the internet... seems they're doing their best to hasten that.
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Solly Mack Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-24-08 10:30 AM
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8. the press can go shit and fall back it in
Course they would enjoy it
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bdamomma Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-24-08 10:46 AM
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11. they probably would and have 24 hour coverage of it too.
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rurallib Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-24-08 10:43 AM
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9. I like to think of myself as a human-animal hybrid
didn't see that one listed.
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genie_weenie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-24-08 10:44 AM
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10. Unrepentant GenX slacker (probably wont vote ignore him)
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KillCapitalism Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-24-08 10:51 AM
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12. The media would call me an elitist.
I have no problems with the comments Obama made about PA, plus I'm college-educated.

Never mind the fact that my income barely puts me above working poor.
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LeftinOH Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Apr-24-08 10:53 AM
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13. Shallow, celebrity-obsessed, not interested in things that require much thought...
actually there's no such category, but the MSM panders to it anyway.
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