I've never liked Lieberman. That guy's wasted tons of tax dollars trying to destroy video games. He's largely useless.

I don't care for Obama, McCain, or Biden for that matter either. The only person white house-bound that I like is Palin. This year's choices are only slightly better than 2004 or 2000's crappy Presidential choices.




RON PAUL!

Well said.

I think one thing we can all agree on here is that violence in video games is not bad.

You've got the wrong assumptions there Akuma. The reasons why the Dems are less likely to fall in line is because they are basically an opposition party.

The Democrats are the "Big Tent" party with a bunch of different groups with difering opinions and ideologies... more so then the republicans.

Take what your average Union Democrat believes vs your average enviormental democrat and you'll see two very different sets of beliefs.

The union democrat thinks the enviromental democrat is insane... and generally democratic because because there bosses are republican.  They need to bribe one side... and the side that they generally agree with more on everything but labor has their main opponents on it.

He got 10% of the vote... and about 23% of Conneticuit are registered republicans.

34% are democrats... and a whopping 43% are indepenedents from the sources I can find anyway.

http://www.watchblog.com/thirdparty/archives/004122.html

Joe Liberman represents the middle... which is what i said.  He has way more to lose by freaking out those people then he does pleasing the token republicans.

43% independent?  Wow, thats a huge number.  I thought all America was pretty much Democrat or Republican.

It depends on state.... a lot of people are moderates and would vote for either candidate.

Some states allow Independents who are allowed to vote on one of the primary ballots.  While other states insist you be a Republican or a Democrat.  As such... many true independents actually just "pick a side" to vote in a primary.

For example I would be a registered democrat because i wanted to vote in the democratic primary this year, (however i was sick).

Yet am a registered republican, because I voted for McCain in the republican primaires in 2000. (More as a protest vote against bush then anything since the election was already decided.)

My political affliation hasn't actually changed at all... but would be recorded differently due to the fact that i wanted to vote in a different primary.

If I had been given the option to be an Independent who wasn't shut out of the primary process... I would choose that.

Oddly CT has a large number of independents AND has closed party balloting.

Depending on who you talk to though.  Registered independents tend to be between 1/3rd-1/4th the general populace.

That's not counting those who switch parties, or are slightly to one side and just register to not be held out of the primaries.

The numbers i can find, show Democrats at 72 Million, Repubs at 55 Million and Ind at 42 Million country wide for registered voters.

Indepenents could be a force in the country but they're taught to believe that voting for a third party is wasting your vote... or even more insidious... a vote for the guy you disagree with more of the two main party guys.

"Dislike McCain more then Obama?  Better not vote for Nadar then... it's as good as a vote for McCain!"

Irritated is not the word. As a gamer I loathe the bastard.

Did anyone catch last nights Colbert Report? They had highlights of Liebermans speech I died laughing when Colbert said "and part way through his speech the screen behind him malfunctioned and started playing one of Liebermans 2006 speeches" and the clip they added into the Lieberman RNC speech was the 2006 Lieberman speech where he talks about supporting Obama all the way and would help him in any way he possibly could.

Colbert burned Lieberman pretty good, he's good at catching politicians in the act of lying through their teeth and that was one of the best.