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Reuters tells us:
As Jon Stewart winds down his 19-year stint as host of Comedy Central's The Daily Show, he and Stephen Colbert sit at the peak of American punditry despite their left-leaning view of life, the universe and everything.
In an era of diffused voices and divided politics, they are well known, widely admired, and speak to Americans in ways that no one else does, according to a recent Reuters/Ipsos poll.
This poll tracks 10 different pundits. Split evenly between conservative and liberal. It is also worth noting that four of the five on the liberal side are comedians, while none of the conservative pundits are trained to tell jokes.
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(Score: 5, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Monday May 11 2015, @04:21PM
Tactical voting is the cancer killing democracy.
I voted for Gary Johnson last election and will likely vote third-party next election. I may get fucked up the ass by the next Rs or Ds voted into office and congress but at least I can sleep soundly knowing I voted against them.
(Score: 2) by Kromagv0 on Monday May 11 2015, @06:04PM
What is somewhat sad is that beyond my mayor, city council, and school board there isn't a single elected official that I voted for that holds office, and there hasn't been since Bush left office. I still bought the BS of wasting my vote if I didn't vote for one of the major party candidates when I voted for Bush but even that was the typical hold your nose and fill in the bubble. Of those that are there to supposedly represent my views in higher office the most competent one seems to be one of the more divisive figures in the US senate but has kept a low profile. I don't think the governor of my state could find his own ass with both hands, a map, and a compass. My other US senator is locally referred to as the senator of small things while my rep in the US House is a former nuclear football carrying for Regan war hawk. My rep to the state house is a right wing bible pounder who wants to legislate out of the good book and my senator to the state senate seems to be fairly decent even if he does used the think of the children or throw more money at it a bit too much.
T-Shirts and bumper stickers [zazzle.com] to offend someone
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Hairyfeet on Monday May 11 2015, @07:06PM
The way the MSM is in bed with the political machines means you have better odds of winning the lotto playing all 1s than any third party has of winning anything nationally.
Hell the way they have it set up now even a so called "dark horse" of 1 of the 2 completely corrupted political parties has ZERO chance of making it, for a perfect example see what they did to Ron Paul in 08, where his supported uploaded footage of some of the shenanigans (I'd call it rigging and I'm a socialist who is against pretty much everything he supports) they were pulling, like the anchor in one of the critical swing states outright telling the reporter on camera "let us know if you get any Palin or Christie footage, just toss the Paul stuff" even though he was actually ahead in that state, or those that counted the votes in at least 3 crucial counties saying "The votes we turned in was NOT what was counted, in our county Romney got virtually nothing and Paul got the majority but when the RNC reported the findings they just flipped the numbers and gave the votes to Romney" and culminating when they did the floor vote at the convention and somebody got their cell behind the podium and caught the teleprompter giving the results of the vote before the call to vote was cast showing that everything they worked for was for naught as it was decided beforehand!
To say now you can change things by voting is to say you can win at 3 card monty against a street hustler. No matter how good you focus, no matter how many times you play the game you will never win because the game is rigged and is only an illusion of chance, the outcome is already known.
ACs are never seen so don't bother. Always ready to show SJWs for the racists they are.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Monday May 11 2015, @08:07PM
We need a new voting system [wikipedia.org].
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