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I am one of the 55% of the 99%.... (Original Post) BooScout Aug 2015 OP
Your arithmetic is W-a-Y off there, BooScout. truedelphi Aug 2015 #1
Not bashful are ya. NCTraveler Aug 2015 #2
That would be a yes... BooScout Aug 2015 #3
54.45% ? Gman Aug 2015 #4
"...that plans on ...."` RobertEarl Aug 2015 #5
I am one of a small number who would never support HRC in a primary TSIAS Aug 2015 #6
"Plans on" sounds rather weak and noncommittal. SMC22307 Aug 2015 #7
I believe the phrase I've heard attached to such people is..."idiot" brooklynite Aug 2015 #8
I gave up smoking some years ago..as I did voting for Clintons. Tierra_y_Libertad Aug 2015 #9

truedelphi

(32,324 posts)
1. Your arithmetic is W-a-Y off there, BooScout.
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 07:22 PM
Aug 2015

We know from two polls established by the Pew Survey people that:

One) Only some 34 to 36% of the voters in the USA consider themselves to be totally loyalist Democrats.

Two) We also know from the same two Pew Surveys that only 22 to 26% of all voters in the USA consider themselves Republicans.

Let us, for the sake of discussion, agree that we will take the higher of the two numbers in the polls: 36% + 26%.

The totals of those numbers = 62%.

So that leaves some 38% of all voters who simply want to vote for what is best for this country.

I would say, from personal experience of standing on street corners last March to June on a local issue, that the 38% is alive and well. They are totally sick of Corporatists, and their giving this country away to the Big Bankers, Big Military and Big Surveillance types.

Sick unto death of them.

They are also sick unto death of the meme "Lesser of two evils."

Then consider that FACT that many of the 34 to 36% of all voters who consider themselves to be Democrats would step around Clinton herself to go into a booth and vote for Sanders over her.

Therefore I have a hard time figuring out how it is that you arrive at 55%???

Explain, please.



 

RobertEarl

(13,685 posts)
5. "...that plans on ...."`
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 09:23 PM
Aug 2015

Good thinking that you are just planning, because by the time we get through with you, you'll be voting for Bernie... that's our plan.

TSIAS

(14,689 posts)
6. I am one of a small number who would never support HRC in a primary
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 09:37 PM
Aug 2015

I'd rather support Blanche Lincoln, Joe Manchin, Mark Pryor, or any other DLC Democrat than ever cast my vote for Hillary Rodham Clinton in a primary election.

And I'll have to have something pretty special in my pipe to go vote for HRC on Election Day. I know I'll sure as hell be high when casting that wretched vote.

brooklynite

(94,598 posts)
8. I believe the phrase I've heard attached to such people is..."idiot"
Fri Aug 14, 2015, 11:50 PM
Aug 2015

...at least, according to some of the Sanders supporters.

 

Tierra_y_Libertad

(50,414 posts)
9. I gave up smoking some years ago..as I did voting for Clintons.
Sat Aug 15, 2015, 03:36 PM
Aug 2015

And, I have plans not to take up either noxious habit again.

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