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Question: Which way would you prefer that it move? Which way is it moving?
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Partisan results
Total Voters: 49

Author Topic: Is America moving to the Left or Right?  (Read 5247 times)
A18
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E: 9.23, S: -6.35
« on: December 26, 2004, 09:13:19 PM »
Should be an interesting poll.
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A18
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E: 9.23, S: -6.35
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2004, 10:43:13 PM »
Quote from: phknrocket1k on December 26, 2004, 10:28:10 PM
Running on a pro-slavery message wouldn't work today, just as running on an anti-gay message won't work in 2060.

I agree. Gay marriage won't exist in 2060.
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A18
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« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2004, 10:54:29 PM »
Tell that to the Massachusetts Supreme Court.
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A18
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« Reply #3 on: December 26, 2004, 11:16:52 PM »
Younger people are more likely to favor gay marriage, just like younger people are more likely to die in traffic accidents. It's about age, not trends.

I guess in the 1960s you would have predicted that the country would be communist soon.
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A18
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E: 9.23, S: -6.35
« Reply #4 on: December 26, 2004, 11:30:09 PM »
BRTD, what the hell do you not understand? Younger people tend to die more in traffic accidents. That does mean that in the future people will die more in traffic accidents.

I agree that progressivism will prevail, and Republicans are clearly the progressive party.
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A18
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E: 9.23, S: -6.35
« Reply #5 on: December 26, 2004, 11:46:26 PM »
Because it's a total joke. The majority of adults are not going to support destroying an institution that has existed for thousands of years.

Again, I'm sure in the 1960s you would have expected the country to be communist in 20 years.
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A18
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« Reply #6 on: December 26, 2004, 11:52:36 PM »
If you mean Soviet communism, no, but the hippie cultural was definitely mainstream.

The same reason all these people your age will stop reckless driving.

It is dead now. It exists in one state, Massachusetts, and will be banned by constitutional amendment. The only hope for it is activist courts.
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A18
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« Reply #7 on: December 26, 2004, 11:55:38 PM »
The federal marriage amendment? No. The Massachusetts marriage amendment? Yes. The polls show most people support it there.

Gay marriage doesn't kill people like reckless driving does. They both are outgrown.
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A18
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« Reply #8 on: December 26, 2004, 11:58:14 PM »
No. Younger people have voted Democratic forever, older people have voted Republican forever.
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A18
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« Reply #9 on: December 27, 2004, 12:02:37 AM »
Looking at the exit poll data Nym90 posted, that's demonstrably false.

Look at 1980. Reagan won that election by 10 points. Among 18-21 year olds, he lost by a point, and among 22-29 year olds, it was tied.
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A18
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E: 9.23, S: -6.35
« Reply #10 on: December 27, 2004, 03:03:00 AM »
That the natural order of things is for Republicans to win and Democrats to lose.
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A18
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« Reply #11 on: December 30, 2004, 10:45:38 AM »
What do you mean by that?

If any change is "liberal," you'd have to say the Reagan Revolution was a liberal movement, as well as the conservative movement in general.
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A18
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« Reply #12 on: December 30, 2004, 11:48:50 AM »
So why don't you just post what you're talking about instead of making us guess? Smiley
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