Obama - President Elect - Page 5

God*BANNED* · #41 23-12-2008, 07:03 PM

Originally Posted by Ian

Fuck Nader. No one even knows what he believes. And he wasn't on the ballot as far as I remember.

lol, running since '69.

Who else was there, then?

Hillary dropped out.

Everyone else was too less known to be even put on the ballot.

Ian · #42 23-12-2008, 07:11 PM

Originally Posted by Nick aka God

lol, running since '69.

Who else was there, then?

Hillary dropped out.

Everyone else was too less known to be even put on the ballot.

THERE ARE MORE THAN JUST DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS.

Bob Barr was on there as the Libertarian candidate. There was a U.S. Taxpayers candidate. And there were 2 others, and that's just the ones we had here in Michigan. I dunnoe about other state ballots.

#43 23-12-2008, 09:38 PM

There is also such thing as write-ins in most states.

Drag0nSlay3r · #44 24-12-2008, 10:23 PM

Originally Posted by Chase

I agree with Stewie. I can't really follow American politics too much because I'm Australian, but I think the reason why he won because he is black.

Good for him though, first black president

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He's as much white as he's black.

44th white president FTW.

Originally Posted by Ian

Fuck Nader. No one even knows what he believes. And he wasn't on the ballot as far as I remember.

He was on the ballot, thing is states decide which candidates appear on ballots other than Democrats, Republicans.

Some states have like 4 candidates while others may have like 10.

#45 24-12-2008, 11:50 PM

Originally Posted by Ian

THERE ARE MORE THAN JUST DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS.

Bob Barr was on there as the Libertarian candidate. There was a U.S. Taxpayers candidate. And there were 2 others, and that's just the ones we had here in Michigan. I dunnoe about other state ballots.

Yeah, but third party candidates don't work, unless there is a giant reformation, there will never be a president who is not a democrat or republican in my lifetime.

And Dragonslayer,
Nice double post you fucking dumbshit.

Reece · #46 26-12-2008, 07:16 PM

Originally Posted by Drag0nSlay3r

He's as much white as he's black.

44th white president FTW.

The media say otherwise.

Saad · #47 27-12-2008, 09:22 AM

Cody · #48 31-03-2009, 03:44 PM

Originally Posted by Ian

THERE ARE MORE THAN JUST DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS.

Bob Barr was on there as the Libertarian candidate. There was a U.S. Taxpayers candidate. And there were 2 others, and that's just the ones we had here in Michigan. I dunnoe about other state ballots.

I agree, neither Obama nor McCain were the best candidates, but the presidential race in the United States is such that Democrats and Republicans are the only ones who get the funding and air time to speak. Most public news networks, whether it be CNN for Democrats or Fox for Republicans, have an extreme bias to one party. Also, even if such media outlets don't have a bias, they can be paid by a party to cover a meeting or speech from their candidate. The same can be said for television networks that aren't news affiliates, because the Republican and Democratic parties both have much more funding than any third party, not including donations made by members of those parties. Sadly enough, unless a candidate is in the Democratic or Republican Party, they will not hold enough influence or have enough funding to get their message out, and if he is, he will owe too many political favors by that point to be able to go with his initial ideas, even if they were great, ideal, and workable.