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Cleansed data does not matter if your data gathering was flawed to begin with. If you look at the Olympian’s report when you google “voter news service 2002 results”, you’ll find mention of problems with data gathering and unscientific techniques concerning the VNS. To ressurect the data now and say that it was cleansed seems rather disingenuous to me.

Results were also skewed tremendously by the 9/11 shock. A lot has changed and those results are about as useful and accurate as a rorschach blot.

computer glitches in voting system.. get used to that phrase now the the “Help America Vote Act” is now law.

the “Help America Vote Act” is yet another doublespeak Bush program that makes the situation it is trying to fix actually much much worse.

Someone help me? What the HECK is a “moderate”? Someone who is unable or unwilling to take a stand on an issue? I have more respect for Liberals than any moderate.

Don’t badmouth moderates. Sometimes they have more sense than us idealists. Truth is, most people care about their own interests, and those interests do not always square precisely with any party’s.

I think sometimes party politics and ideology can be distractions from what a government should be doing, and is able to do best. We should wary of those who put party loyalties ahead of real achievements and ethical behavior.

True, however I was not referring to parties at all. I was referring to ideologies. I don’t care what the DNC or RNC platforms are and of course no one person will agree with them in their entireties. BUT, when it comes to ideologies, there are clear choices and clear definitions of right and wrong. A moderate, by definition, states they agree with some liberal manifests and some conservative. I submit that this is simply intellectual laziness disguised as a moral position.

For some, it may very well be intellectual laziness, but I doubt that represents the majority. One could accuse GOP and DEMS of it, calling them intellectually lazy for being party line sort of folk, but that wouldn’t be true there either.

The Two party system has it’s advantages, but one disadvantage is that often neither side provides coverage for everybody’s interests. So, people just wait and see, for whatever reason.

We’ve gotten into a bad habit in this culture of bashing the intelligence of the average person. To reverse George Carlin’s famous assertion, think about how smart the average person is, and realize that half of the people in this country are smarter than that.

Yes, there are thoughtful and committed voters whose views, individually, are embraced by one or more candidates but collectively cross party lines. For example, how would you pigeonhole a strong ficsal conservative who was pro-choice? Or someone who is pro-life but believes we shouldn’t be involved in Iraq?

I have it pretty easy because the conservative label suits me fine, but there are engaged and informed people whose choices will, in their view, involve significant compromises.