Today, Tom Joyner was in Orlando trying to get his audience to the polls to vote early. No voter that truly cared enough about what was going on in the country would need to be energized by this kind of nonsense. But it's happening all over the country.
E Head sent me a great article a few days ago: When ignoramuses vote.
Let's be honest about this: Nothing good has ever come from just voting. America was not born because droves of people wanted to vote. America was born out of a desire to maintain inalienable rights and an educated group of men who knew what kind of government might complement that desire.
Today Mona Charen seconds the motion.
Seventy percent of voters apparently were completely unaware of the fact that the federal government adopted a huge prescription drug benefit as part of Medicare during the term of President Bush. Fully 65 percent did not know that the government had passed a ban on partial birth abortions. Some 58 percent acknowledged that they knew little or nothing about the Patriot Act (a figure Somin argues persuasively is probably low-ball). Sixty-one percent thought, incorrectly, that there had been a net job loss in 2004. Only 32 percent were aware that Social Security is one of the two largest expenditure areas in the federal government. Only 25 percent could correctly state that the Bush administration does not believe Saddam Hussein was involved in the Sept. 11 attacks. Only 22 percent knew that the current unemployment rate is lower than the average for the past 30 years.
Bush has led damn near every poll all year long. Conservatives only fear now is that this massive get out the uneducated and apathetic vote will put Kerry in the White House. Dedicated groups are busing them in from where ever. God only knows how many California illegal voters pulled the lever in 2000 our will in 2004. There is no shortage of Americans that are looking for some government easy-street and no shortage of politicians willing to trade that lifestyle for their vote.
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