If the 99% would have voted in 2008....

[johncoby2]

I wonder where we could have been.....

[WilliamPitt]

1. ?

Do you mean 2010?

[JoePhilly]

5. +1

[nc4bo]

2. If the 99% were a force in 2006 & 2007. It all begins with the primary.

Or like Will just posted, what about 2010?

[lunatica]

3. That sounds somewhat like a slam

But since I don't know where you're coming from I'll leave it at that.

[lamp_shade]

4. AMEN... if you're talking about 2010.

[hobbit709]

6. I voted and all it got me was this lousy recession and Congressional stalemate.

[LynneSin]

15. But that recession took a decade to create thanks to Bush and the GOP

Remember Bush inherited a surplus

[tjwash]

7. Unrec...the lozo position has already been filled.

nt

[Iggo]

8. Yeah, so fuck those motherfuckers!

Wait a second....

[liberal N proud]

9. If the 99% would have voted in 2000...

the bu$h regime would not have so easily stolen the election.

It is hard to steal an election when it is a landslide.

[kctim]

10. They did

Slightly more than half voted for President Obama. Slightly less than half voted for McCain. Millions chose not to vote at all.

Just another glaring example of how the so-called 99% does NOT represent 99% of the people.

[saras]

11. They did. You have a problem with it?

[Warpy]

12. A lot of them would have voted Republican, remember

because this movement is dead center, cutting across party lines as well as class, sex, region, education, and color of collar lines.

[Lost-in-FL]

13. In the same shit hole.

Elections aren't making a difference. The whole system is bought.

[LynneSin]

14. Same place as we are now. How about if they voted in 2010

Maybe THEN we could have made a difference.

Just look what happened in Wisconsin. All I can say is 'Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda'

[midnight]

16. They did.... They were the masses that came out...

They came out to support a man who said he would bring an end to these wars.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VlXfs1K04g

[swilton]

18. +++

Electing more Democrats is a flawed strategy after seeing how they squandered their mandate in 2008. The system needs to be fixed so that electing a democrat means something.

[Worship Money]

17. I wish people (read:politicians)

Would stop bitching so much about "Where where these people in 2010?", "Why didn't they help us more in 2009?", etc.

What if, what if. Barely any movement in this world starts EXACTLY when it should. What's important is that it starts. In addition, some of the abject failures and awful developments of the last two years have probably given the movement a greater strength and clarity than it would have otherwise.

[Nye Bevan]

19. I'm guessing Obama/Biden would still have beaten McCain/Palin? (nt)

[lame54]

20. 2010 would have been more important

[PETRUS]

21. How about "if the 99% had a candidate to vote for."

[ecstatic]

22. There will never be the "perfect" candidate. If some people could understand that,

we'd be a lot better off. Just like there's no perfect man or woman. If you wait for that, you'll end up alone.

[TBF]

25. Who is asking for "perfect"? We are talking about a candidate who even

vaguely represents the issues of the 99%. From where I stand there are very few in Congress who even come close.

[PETRUS]

28. Exactly.

Most of the major candidates are essentially in support of the oligarchy/plutocracy, they just tinker around the edges in somewhat different ways.

[ecstatic]

33. You have to start somewhere!

The start is making it known that 99% of the people support democratic principles. Once that is established, from there, people and politicians will be comfortable going further and further left. As it stands, everyone in power thinks this is a center right country, because most of the people who actually vote fall into that category.

If you never vote for democrats because you're waiting for the perfect candidate, we'll never get to the place that you're hoping for. :shrug:

[TBF]

23. Unrec - what makes you think they didn't vote? They may not have voted for your choice.

What you need to think about is why we're having such a hard time reaching out to white working class voters. Why are they voting republican when it's so clearly against their economic interest (clue - they may be less intelligent, but that's not the major reason).

[Hell Hath No Fury]

24. We had the Trifecta --

Democratic White House, Senate, and House.

The People did their damned job.

How did that work out for us?? Frankly, it just showed us that many in the Democratic Party are no better than the corrupt-to-the-gills GOPers.

[Marrah_G]

31. Bingo

That is exactly how I feel. I do not trust ANY of them

[woo me with science]

32. Thank you. nt

[yurbud]

26. Do you mean in 2010?

[Zorra]

27. We did vote. Why do you think we are on the streets right now risking getting pepper sprayed

getting beaten up, going to jail, and being fined?

Here's a clue:

K Street money flowing into deficit panel
By Alexander Bolton - 10/18/11 05:30 AM ET

Members of the deficit-reduction supercommittee have raised hundreds of thousands of dollars from special-interest groups, including a significant chunk from healthcare interests that want the panel to fail.

Healthcare political action committees gave more to the deficit panel members than political action committees (PACs) representing energy, defense and agriculture interests, which could also be under the knife, according to fundraising reports filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).

http://thehill.com/homenews/news/188083-k-street-money-flowing-into-deficit-panel

[RegieRocker]

29. Right where we are today more or less.

[Hubert Flottz]

30. If they'd voted in 2000 where would we be?

We'd probably be a HELL of a lot better off.