Ballot Fodder

A regular reader of this blog (whose name does not rhyme with “Moe Jokes”) writes:

I know this has been talked about in Minneapolis for a few months, but when I read the following, I just couldn’t help but think that if you don’t rate voting as a high priority, perhaps you shouldn’t be voting.  Perhaps, if you need your landlord to hold your hand through life’s responsibilities, you aren’t yet ready to live away from your parents.

“Council Member Jacob Frey, who sponsored the measure, said he could have used the reminder about voter registration when he was younger and frequently changed apartments.

“When you’re thinking about your study group and your track team and the girlfriend and the social and what you’re going to do that weekend, and all the other trillions of stimuli that you have at a university, for instance, you don’t think to register,” Frey said.”

You ever notice how the Democrat “get out the vote” machine is focused almost to exclusion on reaching people who don’t pay much attention to government and politics?

There’s a reason for that.

16 thoughts on “Ballot Fodder

  1. Like why Democrats do well in years we vote for a President, but not for other elections. If you are clueless about the governor, state legislators, etc, you may be a Democrat.

  2. Why big city, city council members tend to be clueless. From the article:

    Some rental property owners oppose the measure. Mark Jossart manages 50 apartment buildings in the city. He told the committee the requirement would do nothing but add to his workload.

    “We don’t need more to do. It’s a difficult job as it is,” Jossart said. “Happy to have you in my office for a day to see what goes on.”

  3. That’s funny..

    http://aattp.org/multiple-scientific-studies-confirm-extreme-conservatism-linked-to-racism-and-low-i-q/

    http://www.livescience.com/18132-intelligence-social-conservatism-racism.html

    http://reverbpress.com/politics/proof-republicans-are-stupid/

    I mean, REALLY funny, as in, you know, funny because your last sentence is so easily researched as “not well founded.” Funny because you make a statement about being informed which shows, well, that you’re not well informed.

    /chuckles

  4. As a host on the lesser station said, “try doing that plus being a landlord and add in reminding tenants to vote.”

  5. Peev: I haven’t read your links yet. And I’m most definitely not a betting man.

    But I’d bet half my next mortgage payment that the “information” you provided won’t even address, much less refute, my point.

    It’s kinda become your “style”.

    I’ll take a quick jaunt through the links when I get a moment.

    After which, I have no doubt, I will taunt and mock you for your constant, evergreen rhetorical club-footedness.

  6. I am shocked, shocked, to find dubious cherry-picked material on a website called “Americans Against the Tea Party”.

  7. I’m baffled by the proposal. We already have same-day registration and extended absentee voting, no ID required. What’s the point of having the landlord tell tenants anything?

    The Psychology Today article was from 2013 referring to a study released in 2011 that was savaged by an actual statistician in 2012. http://wmbriggs.com/post/5118/

    It’s been common knowledge the study is so deeply flawed as to be useless: but here it is, again, today. Lies never die, they just get folded away in Liberal drawers to be aired again later.

  8. The second link is to a 2012 magazine article by one of the authors of the flawed study, touting his study. The third link is to another article that, once again, mentions the same flawed study. Repeatedly touting the same lie doesn’t make it true.

    The third link claims conservatives who watch Fox News are dumb. But that’s the click-bait headline, not the study result, which the study authors expressly disclaimed. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-j-woolley/fox-news-does-not-make-yo_b_1519284.html

    The third link also claims conservatives are low effort thinkers, i.e. dumb. No, the study actually tested people’s reasoning ability the more they drank.

    http://2012election.procon.org/sourcefiles/low-effort-thought-promotes-political-conservatism-2012.pdf

    The next headline claims people with low abstract reasoning skills are homophobic. No, that 2010 study says people with high respect for tradition (which he telling describes as “right-wing authoritarianism”) do not look favorably on the gay marriage movement, which tells us author bias but not study participants’ reasoning skills. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20665331

    Seriously, is this the best you can do?

  9. Looks like teh Peevee is tired of returning volley’s of stupid to DG over on their tumbleweed ranch.

  10. Liberals have a pattern to their comments.

    1. You disagree with me so you must not understand, because if you did, you’d agree with me. This is the line they use after Democrat defeat: “We didn’t get our message out.”

    2. You still disagree with me even after I’ve explained it. You must be stupid, or you wouldn’t bitterly cling to your guns and religion. Here’s where the fake studies come from.

    3. You won’t stop disagreeing with me, although you’re not stupid and you understand my point. You must be wicked. If I allow your wickedness to go unchecked, you’ll lure innocents astray; therefore, I have a moral obligation to silence you. And since the stakes are so high, the ends justify any means: doxxing, swatting, calling in bomb threats, shaming your children, boycotting you, secondary boycotting your employer, any lie, any legal or moral offense, whatever it takes. Since I’ll be acting as an agent of justice, I can take pride in destroying your life. For the greater good.

    4. If you were truly wicked, you’d kill me. Literally, come to my house, kill my wife and son, chop my head off and sell my daughters into slavery. So I won’t say a word about you.

  11. Pen/Peev/Mikey/JBaueer

    Looks like, far from attacking my point, you have actually supported it. Wish I were a betting man – not that anyone would have taken the bet.

    BTW – why do you keep changing your handle? You’re not fooling anyone.

  12. Joe Doakes, You missed a step in your “how liberals comment” piece.
    The first step is to believe anything that supports your point of view, no matter what the source.
    I have a coworker who is a left libertarian. He is convinced that the odd hours that we work causes health problems. He once sent me a series of links showing that working graveyard shift leads to prostate cancer.
    The first link went to a scientific study that said the link was hard to prove because the methodology was flawed (self-selected subjects). The second link was to an article that summarized the paper in the first link. The third link was to the abstract of the paper in the first link.
    What can you do with a person like that?
    FYI, this guy has a degree in physics (a BA rather than a BS — yes, there are such things).

  13. Are you thinking of Angry Clown, jimf? I took his head off a few years ago. It’s submerged in oxygenated water in an aquarium I keep in my office. Every so often I throw an old barbie doll in the “clown tank” to entertain him. He usually shreds it with his teeth in a matter of minutes. Once he shredded “barbie” so viciously the bubbler got clogged with bits of barbie’s swimsuit.

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