Author Topic: Poll: Bush may be hurting Republicans (Read 1280 times)

Yeager · « **Reply #30 on:** August 12, 2006, 02:58:20 AM »

ld vote again for Bush if he could run again unless somone better came along, which I seriously doubt would happen. As it is, I will not vote for a democrat regardless.

Stang · « **Reply #31 on:** August 12, 2006, 03:17:21 AM »

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Originally posted by wetrat
allow me to offer an outside opinion.... regardless of political preferance, the average American isn't very intelligent. that's probably not the right word.... uninformed or ignorant is probably better.

As opposed to you enlightened and educated Canucks, right?

Yeager · « **Reply #32 on:** August 12, 2006, 03:56:25 AM »

what is an "average american" anyway?

Its not like there are enough canadians to be bothered with, but Im just curious what the definition of "average american" is? I know plenty of americans and if I were tasked with identiyfing those americans that are "average" well..hell, I wouldn't know where to start.

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #33 on:** August 12, 2006, 08:42:05 AM »

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Originally posted by FUNKED1
That there a lots of stupid people in the US and they vote?

Well, we can't exactly disenfranchise all the radical left wing liberal Democrats. That would be contrary to the Constitution.

lukster · « **Reply #34 on:** August 12, 2006, 08:49:26 AM »

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Originally posted by Yeager
ld vote again for Bush if he could run again unless somone better came along, which I seriously doubt would happen. As it is, I will not vote for a democrat regardless.

I won't say I won't vote for a democrat but's it's very unlikey considering the tools they offer up for the slot.

lazs2 · « **Reply #35 on:** August 12, 2006, 08:54:39 AM »

so funked... you think that people with BA's are not only smarter than everyone else but.... better able to decide who should run the country?

You agree that it was smart to vote for kerry?

Perhaps your chart shows that people with BA's are not very worldly and are easy to fool..

But then.... you must know that right?

lazs

DREDIOCK · « **Reply #36 on:** August 12, 2006, 09:47:38 AM »

I like to study people. Its kinda a hobby of mine, see who they are, what they are about, and their reactions to certain situations. Part of the reason I like to argue and push buttons. Just to see the reaction

I have met very few people with a degree of any sort who as a whole are any smarter then anyone I know without one.

More shoolastically educated, yes. Smarter, no

I have however met alot of people who are as a whole hands down ALOT smarter then people I know with a degree.

by "as a whole" I mean all around intellegence

Having a degree doesnt mean your smart. It just means you have been educated in specific subjects.
Being educated in those subjects doesnt make you smarter in them or smarter as a whole. it just makes you educated in those specific subjects.

I have also noticed that the higher the IQ level, the lower the common sence level.
that is, people with ultra high IQs while may be great at figuring out the super complex. Struggle with the ultra simple.

Example. I have a relitive. Super high IQ. Helped design and build artificial hearts. Yet couldnt figure out how to change the tire on his car or put his neices swingset together (true story)

I have also noticed that people with higher educations and/or IQ levels tend to be more easily duped then thier counterparts. And the higher the level of education. The more easily they are duped

As someone once said here. Any idiot can go to college It doesnt make them any smarter. All it does is make them an educated idiot.

Course there are those who fall inbetween. They seem to be able to have the balance of all around smarts AND common sence. But even they tend to exel on some areas and suffer in others.

Overall. How "Smart" or "intellegent" or how "Stupid" someone is tends to depend on what subject your talking about.

As everyone seems to be reguardless of education or IQ level really good in some areas. and really poor in others

Mini D · « **Reply #37 on:** August 12, 2006, 09:56:31 AM »

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Originally posted by FUNKED1
I'm not sure he's hurting them in terms of numbers of votes, but he's certainly concentrating all the low IQ's in his corner...

I guarantee there were a significant amount of people with higher IQs than you that voted for him last term. They were smart enough to recognize the alternatives.

The Dems and Republicans are hurting themselves right now. They really have no right blaming any individual.

Suave · « **Reply #38 on:** August 12, 2006, 09:59:41 AM »

Education is the solution to ignorance, but it won't make you more intelligent.

Although, now that I think about it, the smartest people who post on this forum, even the people I sometimes disagree with, all have had higher education.

lazs2 · « **Reply #39 on:** August 12, 2006, 10:08:29 AM »

sooo.... ultimately... we simply have to find the one American with not only the highest IQ but the most education and let him do all the voting for us?

He is probly wearing a drool bib and has his shirt buttoned in all the wrong holes and smells funny. He probly is a professor who doesn't teach and hasn't gotten laid in at least 4 decades.

lazs

Mini D · « **Reply #40 on:** August 12, 2006, 10:20:41 AM »

I had a cousin that was a modern version of a hippy. He was a naturalist, vegan photographer. He came to Portland because he'd really liked what he'd seen the times he'd visited. He ended up co-renting a house with 4 like minded people. No ammount of pointing out the inherant problems with the liberal left could have explained what that experience gave him.

"They all sit around and talk all day. They talk about how the companies are poluting the air while they're smoking. They talk about how the companies are killing the forrests, though they never go outside. They talk about how all the cars are killing the world though none of them have ridden their bikes all year. They just sit around and complain about everyone and everything and talk about how stupid everyone else is."

That's what he said to me. If I'd said that to him, he'd never have believed it.

Everyone trying to prove how stupid the other party is to members of that party is obtuse... not those they're trying to "prove wrong". The "stupid" label has been thrown around alot. Anyone calling voters stupid is defining irony. Whether it's the minimum wage "sucking on the government tit" stupid folks, or the religious wacko stupid inbread folk... It's just ironic.

Someone could fancy himself the smartest person on the world and still be sleeping on his sister's couch.

FUNKED1 · « **Reply #41 on:** August 12, 2006, 10:29:44 AM »

Really smart people are actually stupid. You fellas have convinced me. For your next trick, 2+2=5?

Mini D · « **Reply #42 on:** August 12, 2006, 11:07:56 AM »

Thinking that education is the cure for ignorance is greatly dependant on the education received and the interpretation of the person receiving it. Thinking that this education can only come from a college is, well, ignorant.

Thinking that the only smart people in the world have degrees is equally ignorant.

Thinking that there is a singal definition of "smart" or that somehow someone being "smarter" in one field implies "smarter in another" is also ignorant.

Do you see a trend here funky?

Be carefull who you call ignorant when you have your head burried in the sand.

Yeager · « **Reply #43 on:** August 12, 2006, 01:32:28 PM »

somebody sit funkd down and talk to him about that avatard thingy. that visual is enough to make nuns kill

Tarmac · « **Reply #44 on:** August 12, 2006, 01:36:10 PM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
sooo.... ultimately... we simply have to find the one American with not only the highest IQ but the most education and let him do all the voting for us?

lazs

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