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October 19, 2004
Rock the Vote Update

Posted by Bill

Submandave went sniffing around some of RtV's source material on the draft scare:

Bill at INDC has been on Rock the Vote's case about a dummy "draft card" on their front page that, until yesterday, bore the signature of Donald Rumsfeld. They replaced it with Charlie Rangel, but still give the "draft issue" front page treatment. I poked about a bit, noting that they link to Alliance For Security for Debunking the Myths, a site that still spoke of both the House and Senate bills, even though the House Bill was shot down recently. But, oh, wait, they did notice that and didn't like it because "As a result, the draft issue will not receive the extended discussion and debate it deserves."

Go read his conclusions.

Posted by Bill at October 19, 2004 11:41 AM | TrackBack (1)

Comments

The fact that this many young people are falling for this obviously ridiculous story is proof positive that the administration does not want the draft. They only want the willing and intelligent volunteer heroes we have today and they wouldn't want to dumb-down a good thing whiny scaredy-cats.

Posted by: Gary at October 19, 2004 04:22 PM

Don't care, voted already, down the line Republican. Hehehehehe....

Hugh McBryde

Posted by: Prakk at October 19, 2004 04:57 PM

The plan by the Dems this year is to raise as much fear and anger as they can, period, because they believe this is the best way to get their voters to turn up.

I personally think it's backfiring but I may be wrong.

Posted by: Dean Esmay at October 20, 2004 01:47 AM

I think the Repubs are spreading plenty of their own fear around. And the argument could be made that it's backfiring on them. That is, if you pay attention to polls.

Posted by: Mantis at October 20, 2004 02:51 AM

Here's my opinion on Rock the vote.

http://bringblog.blogspot.com/2004/10/warning-political-post-ahead.html

Posted by: Bill at October 21, 2004 01:00 PM