Killing your voters

Why the Democrat is a dying breed

Published on November 21, 2004 By Kemimas In Current Events

Between 1973 and 1986 there were nearly 16,000,000 abortions in the US Link. Those are the ones who would be of voting age by now. That is a fact. Now I'm going to make an assumption. I'm sure someone will let me know if they believe this assumption to be unreasonable...

Assumption: The vast majority of these deceased citizens came from families / mothers who were liberal leaning. Lets go with a conservative estimate of 75%.

With equal numbers of conversions on both sides, and a youth voter turnout at over 50% Link, we would have had an estimated 6,000,000 extra Democrats and 2,000,000 extra Republicans at the polls. Would this have been enough to turn the election? Probably. Are these numbers exact, of course not. But the point remains that by pushing an anti-life agenda, the Democrats have pretty much screwed themselves. Killing off your voter base will do that.

Comments

Texas Wahine

on Nov 21, 2004

The vast majority of these deceased citizens came from families / mothers who were liberal leaning.

That's quite an assumption. Any way to prove that?

No?

Really?

Are you sure you can't prove it?

What's that?

You shouldn't have made that assumption?

You concede that the premise of this article is flawed?

Alrighty then.

shadesofgrey

on Nov 21, 2004

Other than the flaw that Tex pointed out you are also assuming that children vote the same as their parents--I am not sure that you would be albe to find any evidence to back up that claim as well.

dabe

on Nov 21, 2004

Holy crap!! That is one of the most ridiculous ASSumptions I've ever read. I would say that the vast majority of abortions were done by poor, rich, middle class, black white, brown, young, unmarried, and by women who could not, would not, did not feel they had any other options, because of health, finances, emotional instability, emotional maturity, they maybe made a mistake, their men's condoms broke, their birth control failed, etc. etc. etc. To assume that these aborted fetuses maybe had some kind of political affiliation is downright lunacy.

So, what's your point? Do you really think democrats would consider halting abortions because it would inflate their voting base? Do you really have so much disdain for democrats? Or, are you just a flaming reactionary liberal hater? Sheesh..............................

Dr Guy

on Nov 22, 2004

This is an exercise in mental gymnastics, and I find it amusing. Not the article itself, but the flames in the comments. They are more fun to read than the article!

shadesofgrey

on Nov 22, 2004

Not the article itself, but the flames in the comments

Just because a comment differs from your own opinion does not make it a flame. There is nothing "flame worthy" about my comment. It is simply pointing out how this "exercise in mental gymnastics" is flawed. I'd say the article itself is just as inflamatory as any comments Texas and I made.

Kemimas

on Nov 22, 2004

Yeah! I finally got some comments!

I told you it was an assumption, didn't I? Not exactly sure how one would go about proving such a thing, since anecdotal evidence doesn't constitute proof. The reason I think the assumption I made is a reasonable one is that people who feel abortion is morally OK are more likely to commit it than people who don't. I think of this as self-evident. To say in the reverse, that moral opposition to abortion has no weight in a woman's decision, is truly rediculous.
As far as voting like their parents... unless youth are converting one way more heavily than the other, I see no reason to consider this a factor.
No I don't think that Democrats would consider abandoning their support for abortion. I'm merely pointing out the irony of the situation.

on Nov 22, 2004

When you assume, You made an ASS out of U and ME.

greywar

on Nov 25, 2004

I will side with Kemimas on this one as it is very unlikely that many of the mothers in question were right-wingers in statisically significant numbers...

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