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The Electorate can be divided up into many different groups. Many of these groups are motivated to vote because of specific issues of this administration which affect them. Here is a list of some of the groups and the issues involved. Please add anything you can think of:
Business community, investors: see georgesoros.com
Security moms: war in Iraq, further aggression in the ME is making us less safe, not more
Elderly: medicare rates up
GLBT: the Marriage Amendment, Bush's pledge to appoint conservative judges including vacant posts when supreme court justices retire.
Vets: lessening benefits, exposure to depleted uranium other health risks (vaccines?) covered up.
Young men: opposed to the draft, also majority feel U.S. was misled into going into Iraq.
Blacks: voter suppression in the south and elsewhere, Bush ignores black groups
Jews: Bush's family ties to Nazis and funding of Auschwitz, he is supported by the Christian Right and sourthern conservatives
Islamic community: danger of being put on "no fly" list and other harrassments
Christians: many feel the Christian Right does not reflect true Christianity
Libertarians: the Patriot Act
Middle class: Bush is doing nothing to prevent outsourcing since it is "good" for big business
Conservationists: lessening pollution controls, encouraging purchase of fuel inefficient vehicles through tax incentives, will probably develop wilderness and pristine offshore areas for oil
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