Same-Sex Marriage Amendment NY State

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I take it that's in line with national turnout?

I don't know, but WhyMe's statement that most Alaskans don't vote is simply not true.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Yes, come here and tell them that.

Why would I do that? Alaskans told us how they feel. Why would I have to come there and tell them what they told us?

[Zero Sum 305]

We lead in suicide, alcohol consumption per capita, assualts per capita, rapes, etc... It's not like it's a cake walk...you know that. H*ll I can remember a few times when we got ran into the Magistrate in Anchorage on 4th ave and all he asked was how much $ we could give him and still have enough cab money to get home. That's when you would hand your gun over to the cop so he could take out the bullets and then he would hand it back to you as long as you promised not to shoot anyone on the way home.

Sounds like examples of real winners.

I've also lived in liberal bastions like NYC and DC. I'd say people there are even less open minded than in Alaska. If you don't think as the libs in those places do, then you get beat down and shunned. I don't see much difference between them and Alaska as far as rigid attitudes go, except that you get the gay forced on you in lib places and not forced on you in Alaska.

Talking about forcing how's that support of denying marriage rights working out for your logic there?

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

I don't know, but WhyMe's statement that most Alaskans don't vote is simply not true.

**, they're actually above the national average. In 2000, national turnout was 51.3% and in 2004 it was 55.3%. So much for them not voting. Seems that Why_Me just can't get a single fact straight today. Poor guy.

[Zero Sum 305]

Yes, come here and tell them that. Most of us don't vote. In fact the ones who do vote are the Christian wingnuts (Baptist, Mormons, etc..), and then on opposite side of them you have the few libs up here. The majority of us who are in the middle of those two groups rarely if ever vote. Now if they moved the voters booths to the bars the voter turnout up here would be off the hook...but they don't.

Don't vote, don't complain.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

Rather a slim majority. As of August 2010, support for gay marriage in Alaska was well in line with the support across the country - a slight majority against. That tide has since turned nationally and I would suspect that in Alaska - having been right within the national trendlines all along - that turn has either also occured by now or is close to occuring.

45% of Alaskans support same sex marriage

Don't believe that. Polls up there are horribly skewed toward students and transients.

I don't know, but WhyMe's statement that most Alaskans don't vote is simply not true.

Actually, it probably is true.

[Zero Sum 305]

So we should do things not based on democratic sentiment. Great to have that cleared up.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

Don't like it, don't read it. But I note your 'offense' might have something more psychologically rooted. I wonder what that could be.

Again save your bs for someone who gives two sh*ts. Iv'e read your sock puppet troll post on here for the last two months and Iv'e been pretty cool about it. If you want to be a wannabee intelligent shrink start a Dear Aby blog or something, but don't do it here please.

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Actually, it probably is true.

So the WashPost is wrong and you're right? Ok then.

[Zero Sum 305]

Again save your bs for someone who gives two sh*ts. Iv'e read your sock puppet troll post on here for the last two months and Iv'e been pretty cool about it. If you want to be a wannabee intelligent shrink start a Dear Aby blog or something, but don't do it here please.

You don't give a feces yet here you are whining about my 'BS'. Classic logic there.

Its not about me, macho man.

[Sofiyya 1,687]

So the WashPost is wrong and you're right? Ok then.

Wouldn't be the first time.

[Zero Sum 305]

Self-aggrandizing... golden.

[Bad_Daddy 2,209]

So the WashPost is wrong and you're right? Ok then.

I live here...does the Washington Post? If you think over 50% of eligible voters in Alaska actually went out and voted your higher than a kite. Again most Alaskans don't vote...hence the reason we lost our free porn channels on cable TV...we didn't turn out to vote against the church nuts that pushed that bill even though they are in the far minority. Most of us are doing something else when it's time to vote. You would be lucky to find a majority in any village or town up here that could name the current governor here atm.

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Don't believe that. Polls up there are horribly skewed toward students and transients.

And yet, they're usually able to track elections pretty good. How do they do that if only students and transients are polled?

Actually, it probably is true.

Actually, it's not. Voter turnout in Alaska was above the national average in the last few presidential elections (2000, 2004, 2008).

[Sofiyya 1,687]

When the topic turned to attitudes about gay marriage in Alaska, I know I can trust the take of someone there better than that from the Washington Post. And, having lived in Alaska myself, and having many contacts there still, I'm sure that Why_Me's take on it is more accurate than the WP. Anyone here for a while knows that I don't make it a habit to take Why_Me's side, but he's right on this one.