mini-political rant
wanna decrease your ecological footprint? forget about those canvas grocery bags -- ditch that big-screen tv! was reading a squib from the 12.17.2007 u.s. news & world report, wherein i learned that the electric power research institute found lcd tv's use 75 percent more power, and plasma tv's _three times more_, than yr old crt set. and that according to displaysearch, anticipated north american sales of 23 million set sets and 3.9 million plasma could increase electricity demand by 5 million megawatt hours. that's as much juice as is produced by all the power plants in rhode island.
also, if you're thinking of voting for nader, please don't. after the election in oh-oh, when i still worked downtown, i had a sign on my door that said "don't blame me, i voted for nader." when the dust settled and dubya was on his way to the white house, i crossed out the "don't." i read in yesterday's star-t about local reps who voted in the dem's primary to try and swing the vote to hillary because "she'd be easier to beat" than barack. the past few elections, the dems have been the party that could fuck up a wet dream, even when they held a clear majority. all they need is a past-his-sell-by-date egomaniac sticking his oar in to swing the vote to the reps.
also, if you're thinking of voting for nader, please don't. after the election in oh-oh, when i still worked downtown, i had a sign on my door that said "don't blame me, i voted for nader." when the dust settled and dubya was on his way to the white house, i crossed out the "don't." i read in yesterday's star-t about local reps who voted in the dem's primary to try and swing the vote to hillary because "she'd be easier to beat" than barack. the past few elections, the dems have been the party that could fuck up a wet dream, even when they held a clear majority. all they need is a past-his-sell-by-date egomaniac sticking his oar in to swing the vote to the reps.
posted by stashdauber at 11:08 AM
1 Comments:
This might seem like beating a dead horse by now but I don't think Nader voters should be blamed for electing Bush in 2000.
If Gore had done a better job of getting votes, the tiny fraction of votes for Nader wouldn't have mattered. It was a gamble that Gore's campaign took, appealing to swing voters in the middle as hard as they could and running to the center.
Gore made a hundred mistakes and to blame Nader, who ran an honest (if quixotic) campaign even though he wasn't allowed in the debate and was marginalized in every conceivable way is ridiculous.
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