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Originally Posted by DaemonSeid
I wish I could have done that for the past 8 or so years.....
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I'm not sure how much knowing any of the information we learn really changes anyone's behavior anyway.
Did you really do anything different based on what you learned through political coverage in the last eight years? (Did you love Bush at one point and change your mind?)
I don't think most people do. They vote for the candidates that they'd be most likely to vote for anyway with only a superficial overview of positions, I think. (I'm all out of love for Bush, but I wouldn't vote for John Kerry or Gore if I had it all to do over again.) And I think a very small percentage of the non-professional lobbyist population ever seek to influence the positions of elected officials once they are elected.
Have you written your congressperson lately? Started a re-call effort? Gotten involved in internal party politics based on Michigan or Florida? I haven't.