11-08-2012, 03:31 AM
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MURICAN
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Virginia
Posts: 5,136
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Originally Posted by thekremlin
I'm willing to bet that the majority of people who voted for him don't know a single thing about him, and don't care. No one thought he was going to be president, but voting for him was a form of protest against the two-party system. Maybe even 80% of his votes came from this? No idea. Not even saying there's anything wrong with that, because it is an effective form of protest. But for the most part, I wouldn't consider his votes "votes".
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The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them.
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