[Peace-discuss] [OccupyCU] [sf-core] They let us choose between a child-killer and a job-killer

[Ricky Baldwin]

Clever, but I don't think that's true actually.  There's what people know who take the time to dig - to whom the spectacle may be colored negatively by what they know - but I think for a lot of people there are many unfortunate things happening in the world but their candidate (either one) is innocent of them or maybe even the solution to them.

My understanding is that negative campaigning does, however, tend to decrease turnout.  This seems to me a symptom of the apolitical disease that infects our culture (we probably catch it from watching tv).

Ricky 
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From: occupycu-bounces at lists.chambana.net [occupycu-bounces at lists.chambana.net] On Behalf Of C. G. Estabrook [cge at shout.net]
Sent: Monday, October 29, 2012 11:42 AM
To: Mike Lehman
Cc: Peace-discuss List; sf-core; occupycu
Subject: Re: [OccupyCU] [sf-core] They let us choose between a child-killer     and a job-killer

A minion of the 1% who kills children tends to set a negative tone.


On Oct 29, 2012, at 11:17 AM, Mike Lehman <rebelmike at earthlink.net> wrote:

> On 10/29/2012 10:18 AM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> > ...and we're corrupted by voting for either.
> >
> > In Illinois, the Green party's candidate, Jill Stein, is on the ballot, and one could write-in Rocky Anderson (Justice party), who's been impressive in the third-party debates.
> >
> > The third-party vote in Illinois will probably make more of an impression than abstention.
> Yeah, abstention is not an option unless one just doesn't care, in which
> case they probably aren't on any of these lists anyway.
>
> I would note that a number of people have cited a belief that the
> overwhelmingly negative tone of politics in recent years tends to drive
> down voter participation, i.e. abstention.
>
> I would like to think that we each of us does everything we possibly can
> to avoid such an impression...
> Mike Lehman


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