| Nov 5, 2008 @ 1:33 AM |
A different kind of voter...
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CPUfan
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I think one thing this election result has shown to us in Europe is that there is a significantly different kind of voter over there now to what we have previously been led to expect. This is a complete break with the past.  
What we have seen is a voter who pays less attention to appearance and more to content. I think president Obama will give his all to live up to their vision.  
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 1:37 AM |
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grumblebear
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the thing that is so cool about our system, is no matter how much is tossed about during the campaigns, we always have an orderly and peaceful transition...
Good Luck to President-Elect Obama, its a tough job, in tough times...
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 1:42 AM |
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CPUfan
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Yes the anticipated problems have not materialised. I wish our American cousins the very best with their new president.
It's going to be a rough ride in some ways but I believe he will make a positive difference. What was most striking was the sheer professionalism of the campaign. Why not of the regime too? 
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 1:47 AM |
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nah12
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What we have seen is a voter who pays less attention to appearance and more to content.
Sorry CPU it had nothing to do with content ... you might want to actually look who and how people voted .....
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 1:52 AM |
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CPUfan
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Yes I've seen a bit of the breakdown but the whites who voted for him didn't vote on colour. Especially the younger ones.
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 1:55 AM |
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burnslikethesun
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61% of Obama's supporters where white.
I got to see the English papers headlines.
Funny
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 1:59 AM |
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nah12
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But how many Blacks voted for him and how many were 1st time voters and why CPU ... tell me that was only on content ....... there lies the true answer whether anyone wants to talk about it or has the guts to bring it up or not besides me .....
and sure i will be called a racist for doing so ...i do expect that .. but it is part of the actually point of this election not being about content for a large majority ...... just as some whites only voted for him because he was a democrat not on content ....
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 2:01 AM |
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CPUfan
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The BBC is thrilled. Both the World channel and the website >BBC on election result<
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 2:04 AM |
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CPUfan
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more to content was what I actually said. I don't say you're racist Nah, but neither were O's white voters. Yes they are Democrats, but that is also 'content.'
I think McCain put it extremely well in his address.
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 2:04 AM |
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burnslikethesun
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But how many Blacks voted for him and how many were 1st time voters and why You tell me your fear and Ill tell you if your close.
The entire world is please.
America used to have respect, as a leader of free nations, now we are the laughing stock, those that used to respect us, fear us, or just plan hate us.
Does this stop them from taking all the cash we have to take loans for. No. It just makes us bigger jokes.
Fear doesn't equal respect.
Yes they are Democrats, AND Republicans.
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 2:05 AM |
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KAOS2007
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But how many Blacks voted for him and how many were 1st time voters and why CPU Did it ever occur to anyone that perhaps some of these people finally felt like their vote may matter?
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 2:09 AM |
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burnslikethesun
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Waiting waiting Don't want to toe stub.
Ok I cant hold any longer.
If somepeople had the same respect to watch Obama speech tonight, as Im willing to bet McCain did. They would have caught, the fact that one black lady cast her first ballot ever, was 106 years old.
For what you dear Kaos, said just now.   You're smerts are so sexy.
Not trying to be sexist, just sexy.
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 2:13 AM |
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KAOS2007
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For what you dear Kaos, said just now. You're smerts are so sexy.
Not trying to be sexist, just sexy.  Thanks, I don't claim to be smart about your elections, but I am trying to learn and along the way have formed some opinions, right or wrong, I have them.
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 2:21 AM |
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burnslikethesun
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practicing to be a US citizen? Hmm I like the thought of that. Kaos, state side.
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 2:24 AM |
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KAOS2007
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I've always loved the USA.
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 2:39 AM |
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ISSUESWOPTIONS
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You tell me your fear and Ill tell you if your close.
The entire world is please.
America used to have respect, as a leader of free nations, now we are the laughing stock, those that used to respect us, fear us, or just plan hate us.
Does this stop them from taking all the cash we have to take loans for. No. It just makes us bigger jokes.
Fear doesn't equal respect.
Burns, hold on to your thong, I am about to agree with you. That was flipping EXCELLENT!!!!
THIS is what the high and mighty know it all in this forum does NOT know, or refuses to acknowledge. The world F L IPP I N G HATED US!!! They only see it on CNN and biased TV, witness it upclose and personal, then come back to me. Now the world hopes that NEW change will BENEFIT EVERYONE, not just the oil hungry, i want money, few.
Sorry CPU it had nothing to do with content ... you might want to actually look who and how people voted .....
Nah, I know you are not racist, even with the confederate flag behind you, but you are missing an important point, which is why you keep that pic up. HERE:
Did it ever occur to anyone that perhaps some of these people finally felt like their vote may matter?
Without that McCain would have won by a landslide. Instead of being pissed off try and see the good in this. Blacks in america turned out in numbers which means that they FINALLY got off their let me hold contempt, lazy, give me free handouts, welfare is king asses. THAT is CHANGE, and that change is in a forward direction. How do you kill a stereotype? Put a Mother F**ker in charge that they HAVE to look up to. The Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson race baiting MF are DONE. The american blackman now has to achieve, a path has been set. There ain't no more free handouts that has been kept in play by the racist few anymore. They just lost power. Americans now have to be americans and work for America's greater good because there are no more excuses. Obama wining didn't hurt the whiteman or progressive blackman, it F U C K E D the stereotypical, I don't wanna follow policy, jaded, where's my handout bullshitters and followers. It is the one thing that has bee slowly dying as more and more Americans (ALL) get more and more educated.
I think you have been looking at Change from the wrong point of view and the above is why I voted for Obama.
THERE ARE NO MORE EXCUSES for the "Minority" sect.... 
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 6:51 AM |
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nah12
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just paying respect ... 
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 8:09 AM |
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sealacamp
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What we have seen is a voter who pays less attention to appearance and more to content.
Well then you have been misled in your assessment. What I have seen, heard, and experienced first hand are masses of people that don't even know what their candidate or party stands for. In fact the prejudiced runs so rampant that many are flattened by those hysterical masses when any truth or factual information comes into the arena. Yes it is a different kind of voter but it is not what you think.
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 8:10 AM |
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CPUfan
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Blacks in america turned out in numbers which means that they FINALLY got off their let me hold contempt, lazy, give me free handouts, welfare is king asses. THAT is CHANGE, and that change is in a forward direction.
It was an opportunity to vote for someone who might make a difference for them - and they took it. That is what "of the people, by the people, for the people" is all about. They just adopted the constitution in force. And it IS an opportunity for them. I think many will now follow up on the wave of optimism. The opportunity is on offer.
And to be honest, Obama's white voters were also thinking more of the country, the Republic, than they did of appearances or perceived sectarian interests. They went with who they thought best for the task, not with who they thought whitest.
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| Nov 5, 2008 @ 8:15 AM |
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tatiana329
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I do not think your seeing what you think your seeing..... as what your seeing is that people are far more concerned with the color green than brown.
I feel most who voted for Obama LOOKED PAST his skin color not because of his visions but because of sheer desperation as to the economic crisis of the nation
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as he.... Obamas promises of hope and change.
lets hope he can actually do something because so far to me.. in his plan... does not sound good to help the stock market
to increase taxes to big business...
and make it harder for them.
I would be glad to see the stock market, esp nasdaq rocket as I am heavily into that with my personal finances...
and can buy a nicer ho9use with a better view should nasdaq skyrocket.
we will have to all wait and see now.
[Edited on 11/5/2008 8:24 AM]
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