USA Presidential Race

[Doug Pensinger]

 jon  wrote:

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>
> > People are running for an office, but it's barely worth
> > my time to vote at all.  I'm certainly not going to
> > do any research on the candidates.  (Think Dogcatcher, or
> > the Board of Directors of that company you have one share
> > in, ...)  In that case, I routinely vote for women.
> > (Since one can almost always tell candidates' genders
> > from their names.)  I don't usually extend this to
> > ethnicities, but I guess I'm less likely to vote
> > for "Reginald Chumley III" than for "John Smith".
> > Although that's not really ethnic; the former could
> > have chosen to go by "RJ Chumley", after all.
> >
> >                               ---David
> >
> > Restoring the balance, Maru
>
> what i said doesn't make me a bigot, ronn, just someone who would like
> to see affirmative action at the presidential level.  when whites votes
> for whites, to PREVENT a black man from being elected, THAT is
> racist...
> jon
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>

I don't always agree with Ronn, but count me as one who doesn't believe that
affirmative action is the right track.  It's the old two wrongs don't make a
right saw, IMO.

That said, I don't see anything wrong with considering the perspective that
an African-American (or a woman or a Hispanic etc.) might have as _one_ of
the criteria I'm looking for in a Presidential candidate.

Right now though, I'd vote for Howdy Doody before I'd vote for anyone that
called themselves a Republican.

Doug

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