It bothers me that blacks that never voted just came out for this election.

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If you start suggesting that people need great political knowledge, ****... even a little then you'd better expect voting #'s to be cut in 1/2 or maybe more.

As Churchill said, “The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.”

I think a voter does needs to know the core things each candidate represents.

These people shouldn't be able to vote. If you think Sarah Palin was Obamas VP choice you shouldn't vote.

[Eric Holder]

stupid people in general shouldn't be allowed to vote

[P4P Opinion]

stupid people in general shouldn't be allowed to vote

I laughed at that, but let's be honest, it isn't funny.

Doesn't it shame the Republicans here that the core of their support are like this? Doesn't it shame them that they exploit the ignorance and fear of these people for votes? Never trust a Republican who claims to be for Education, because he must know that education will lose them many votes.

I'm not having a go at Americans here, because we have people like that in Britain as well, but our political parties don't exploit ignorance to get votes because it's not needed. Our tabloid papers do that for them.

[Mizzou]

Oh I think its great that people are coming out to vote. I think its an Americans duty to come out and vote. It's great to see people involved and caring about the country but how many of those first time voters do you think will be back in 2016(I assume Obama gets reelected), if a black candidate isnt on the ballot?

Why didn't they come out in droves to support Alan Keyes?