You seem to be under the delusion that the protesters are supporters of the Democratic Party. Nothing could be further from the truth. They support no party and accuse all parties. They recognize we have in truth a one-party system run entirely by Big$ which demands us to pick one of their many puppets over the rest of their many puppets. It's all smoke and mirrors and we've been serving the same master(s) for decades.
That's bullshit, too. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100...82965745362.html?mod=WSJ_WSJ_News_BlogsModule An overwhelming majority of demonstrators supported Barack Obama in 2008. Now 51% disapprove of the president while 44% approve, and only 48% say they will vote to re-elect him in 2012, while at least a quarter won't vote. vs. http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallup-Daily-Obama-Job-Approval.aspx Obama's job approval is 39%. So these people are 9% more likely to support him.
You prove my point. So does your link: Fewer than one in three (32%) call themselves Democrats, while roughly the same proportion (33%) say they aren't represented by any political party. I could see Occupy becoming a political party of it's own, with Ralph Nader as it's candidate. Where is Ralph? I'd expect him to be very vocal about this. Ill health?
you've got to be on crack if you don't think the majority of these are liberal nutjobs. or voted for Obama. or will vote for him in 2012. "BUT YOU CAN'T PROVE IT...DERRRRR!" \ :MARIS61:
Bzzzt. 56% of the occupy wall street people voted in 2008. 78% of those voted for Obama. 2% of those surveyed say they're republicans. it's quite slanted to the left, bzzt like it or not.
It's rather like the tea party not being republicans. Of course they had been in the past, and would be in the future. However, like at the beginning of the tea party, the occupiers are not currently acting as democrats. It seems highly likely that the movement will either fizzle or be acquired by the democratic party, much as the tea party is now a branch of the republican party. However, it is possible that the democratic party doesn't play it's cards right and the occupiers become a 3rd party instead. Liberals being somewhat less into discipline than conservatives, there is probably a slightly higher chance of the occupiers escaping than there was of the tea party escaping. barfo
Did I say it wasn't? Throwing out non sequiturs doesn't make your previous statement any less incorrect. barfo
With all of Obama's class warfare rhetoric, and now this "movement" starts, you obviously don't see the connection.
Just keep changing the subject, pretty soon everyone will forget your erroneous analysis in post #22. barfo
Forget the facts, barfo. If it doesn't pass the barfo sphincter test, it must be erroneous analysis. (But it isn't erroneous)
It is already against FEC rules for any one person, corporation, enterprise, group, union, or the like to donate more than $2,000 to any one candidate during one campaign period. If barfo runs for president, would the 2 (maybe) who'd vote for him be sufficient that he should get equal air time with Mitt Romney? How does Boeing compete with AirBus? AirBus is funded by european nations.
According to the FEC WWW site, individuals are limited to $2500 contributions and PACs may contribute $5000. Direct contributions from corporations and unions are prohibited. Also, the tea party letter to the fleabaggers is a list of things that aren't what occupy wall street is about.
But it is, quite obviously, erroneous to say as you did that job approval = likelihood to vote for. I know you can't ever admit you were wrong no matter what, so I'm admitting it on your behalf: you were wrong. You can thank me later, or never. barfo
Of course that barely matters anymore with unlimited superpac spending. Those limits are about as effective in practice as marijuana prohibition is today. barfo
Don't let the facts get in your way of throwing up strawmen. I gave two measures of how the fleabaggers support the democratic party and Obama (in post #22) and another that 2% are republicans. I also posted that I think most will stay home instead of voting. I didn't say they'd vote for Obama. They might donate money to his campaign and the campaigns of democrats, tho. What don't you get?
