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kentuck Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 12:41 PM
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What percentage of the GOP vote Republican because they are racist or homophobic?
Personally, from my observations, I think it is somewhere between 25%-50%.

That is why Herman Cain will never be elected President of the United States.

Also, Mitt Romney has shown some inclination that he is not sufficiently anti-gay. With his other problems of inconsistency and his membership in a cult, the odds are that he will not be elected President of the United States either.

More and more, it looks like the nominee for the Republicans will be another moron with a lot of money from Texas. Intelligence is not something that Republicans value very much.
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begin_within Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 12:42 PM
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1. Or just do whatever their church tells them to do.
Of course they tell them in indirect ways such as "vote your values."
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Gman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 12:42 PM
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2. I would say probably close to 100%
they may not acknowledge it, but at some level, conscious or not, they agree with the racism in the GOP.
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NOLALady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 12:45 PM
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3. 99.9% IMO.
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Scuba Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 12:46 PM
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4. 50-75%
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bluestate10 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 01:01 PM
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8. I agree with this estimate. one half to three quarters, likely more toward the high end. nt
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Zoeisright Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 12:56 PM
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5. The vast majority.
Oh, and don't forget because they don't think women should have any privacy rights. Or protection against rape. Or domestic violence.
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baldguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 12:58 PM
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6. Racist & anti-gay shit gets spewed in the name of the GOP all the time.
People who see it and say nothing are just as to blame as those who spread the filth.

"Silence equals assent."
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bluedave Donating Member (206 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 01:00 PM
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7. 101%
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indepat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 01:04 PM
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9. Add a few other cults, i.e., religious, gun, and right-to-life et al, to the racist and
homophobic cults, and you've accounted for most of the mindless and hate-filled GOP rank-and-file. :patriot:
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 01:26 PM
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11. Yep, that sums up the GOP quite well IMO. If someone gets rights taken away, hurt or
if it creates inequality and/or disfranchises some group, then the GOP is solidly behind it ...
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FarCenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-09-11 01:14 PM
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10. Everybody is racist when it's about a group; few are racist when it's about an individual
So Cain has a reasonable shot at the nomination. Intrade has the odds at 8%.
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