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JDPriestly

(57,936 posts)
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 10:06 AM Oct 2012

He's for the rich, right?

I'm registering voters in public areas -- in front of supermarkets, etc.

The best informed voters are already registered. I'm getting down to the undecided, uninformed, could-care-less voters now. The ones who ask me whether Obama is a Republican or a Democrat. These are, unfortunately, the voters who decide elections.

And in my lower middle class area, this is what I am hearing: "Romney, he's the one that's for the rich, isn't he?"

The Occupy message got across. There's the 1%. That's Romney. And there is the rest of us. That's Obama.

Thank you, Occupiers. At least that much has become clear to ordinary Americans.

Americans are figuring out whom they really need to fear. And it isn't someone in a foreign country.

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He's for the rich, right? (Original Post) JDPriestly Oct 2012 OP
I sure as hell hope you're right. Jackpine Radical Oct 2012 #1
K&R tk2kewl Oct 2012 #2
Their marketing of their message was brilliant. It is so easy to use to sabrina 1 Oct 2012 #3

Jackpine Radical

(45,274 posts)
1. I sure as hell hope you're right.
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 10:09 AM
Oct 2012

I've been on a kind of bummer this AM thinking about the low-information/misinformed/disinformed (pardon the expression) clods who are going to decide the fate of the world.

sabrina 1

(62,325 posts)
3. Their marketing of their message was brilliant. It is so easy to use to
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 12:50 PM
Oct 2012

describe the inequality in the system and even low information voters understand it.

That is why I laugh when the media tries to pretend they don't understand what they were protesting, working hard for their Wall Street bosses to try to distract from the issues as always.

People got it and anyone who says they didn't, is either less informed than the lowest info voter, or they are working for Wall Street.

Yes, Thank You, Occupiers for all you have accomplished so far.

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