Also as an Obama supporter- AMAZING!!!!

You do have a point about being able to vote on campuses. I certainly would like that.

Good Lord you're an idiot...

I don't have a car. I guess I'm not republican.

BOfever:

Typical arrogant GOP response; not every student has a car, or can afford the GOP/Halliburton gasoline costs to drive a car.

AND, jerks like you are obviously not concerned with carbon emissions. Many students are physically able to walk.

Why don't you just stay home? McCain will lose anyway.

BOfever, I think the whole idea was to make a statement...and yes, I think they did. Beautiful!

*LOL*

Yeah, but the Dem students have WAY more fun.

Smarter? I don't think so. Especially if they voted for Bush twice.

Agree. Christians will be a black stain for years to come because they still support and keep them in power.

How do you know who they're voting for?

Then the next question is would these young people have exercised their right to vote if Obama had not been in the race or if he had been a different race? In the past did these young people of voting age stand up to Delay's tactics just because of the inequities of them or did it take a black candidate to get them to take a stand...I would hope they came out in equivalent numbers to cast a vote when there was not black running because that would be a far more convincing statement that would keep the race issue out of the picture and the voting rights picture forefront. That is the courage their parents, grandparents, great grandparents and the generations before took and, yes, even died for.

Continued: I hope, however, this message from prairie A&M is heard on high in Washington as I am most concerned about how the Republican Party in general is targeting minorities and low income voters all ove rthe country by a planned effort to cut down the number of polling places causig the less able to travel longer distances even in the urban areas of states where the secretaries of states are republican. In our own state the effort has cut the polling poaces inthe lartgets city by 2/3rds and the low income and blacks and hispanics have several miles further to travel than the more affluent urban and many of the polls are now placed in the most conservative churches rather than in the public schools that have all been made handicapped accessible. But then, our state had Katherine Harris come and tell the local rebuplican electiosn commissioners how to suppress voters...that is one reason I don't think Obama will carry one state where he won the caucus. There ought ot be a law suit, but getting to this Supreme Court would be falling on deaf ears anyway, I guess. And in answer to a question in the blog, why would I not think the students in general support Obama...after all he is getting 90& of the black vote everywhere else, isn't he? The statistics of that assumption are pretty ovbious this year.

Fleetwood Mac?

What if their home was Michigan?

Yikes,
They are only walking to vote, and to protest the fact that their polling place is 7 miles away.

Maybe they live in Texas, but they don't have a car, and can't make the eight-hour bus ride across Texas to vote.

Have you ever been to texas? It takes 6 months to walk across the street.

You know you're full of crap right?

These kids have a right to vote in the town where they are living. If a town has a college or university, it profits greatly. The students bring lots of money to the town. The people in the town know the kids will vote and they should accept that, or close the college and not reap anymore from its presence.

Would you say that people can't vote in a town they live in for two years because they have a two year stint there for their jobs? Why should students be any different.

I can tell you, I lived in Austin, Tx to get my degree and I voted in Austin. I had no car, and the only way I could get to San Antonio, my hometown, to vote was to ride the bus. It was an all day ordeal.

Why should I have been required to go to SA to vote?

This is the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, we have the right to vote in whatever town we live in, no matter why we are living there.

You are arrogant in your comment. Regardless of Democratic parents, you've obviously swung to John McCain.

Did they protest the inclusion of prisoners being counted as residents in these small Texas towns in order to get more tax dollars too? Funny how a town of 800 can get funds for 3,800 people when there's a prison
nearby.

That line has become as boring a talking point as using his middle name.

Obama has a lot of accomplishments. The problem is, nobody knows what senators do. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein are my state's U.S. senators. I support them. And can I name a single legislative accomplishment of either of them? Of course not. And I consider myself to be a bit of a political junkie. How many McCain accomplishments can anybody on this message board name? There's McCain-Feingold, which we know because it got tons of press, but what else has he done (I mean, beside the amorphous "he's a strong supporter of the military"). Knowing a senator's legislative accomplishments is hardly a requirement for supporting them.

nor was tubbs asked any specific accomplishments of hillary - but boy, naming those libraries sure is special!

Well - it looks like he's accomplished one thing anyway -getting them out to vote.

Yes, Julie, and then what happened and why?