Comments on: Poll: Students would sell their votes. And you?

By: Mike C.

Mike C. — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:02:10 +0000

A years tuition? Makes sense to me. That is the kind of issue a student would be voting for someone to address anyway.

A million dollars? It is not what it used to be but it gets you through school with a nice chunk of seed money. There are more effective ways to influence elections and policy than casting a single vote.

The ipod thing? 20% is well below the percentage of the general voting eligible public who give their vote away for nothing by not using it.

Kid are not stupid, they never have been. They deal with the world they see. Every generation blames their kids first and then the old before they accept responsibility for anything.

By: Jim Booth

Jim Booth — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 15:15:18 +0000

$50 million, tax free. This leaves me free to buys Sam’s vote and still have $49 mill left so that I can be a member of Congress.

Or start a record label that releases music that doesn’t suck – or conform to narrow genre strictures whose sole purpose seems to be to separate us from each other.

I can see now I’m going to have to raise my price….

By: Russ Wellen

Russ Wellen — Sun, 25 Nov 2007 04:06:46 +0000

It’s not the kids who devalue the vote, it’s those who make a fraud of both the political and voting process.

Besides, some of the poll responders may rationalize selling their vote by believing that they can do more with the money than with a vote that may be worth nothing.

That’s one of those polls that just sets up the respondents to look bad. Check out Huffington Post, where Arianna Huffington has just announced “HuffPo’s Polling Project.”

She “decided to turn the tables by launching a wide-ranging effort to scrutinize an industry devoted to scrutinizing us.”

By: jeff

jeff — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 22:33:33 +0000

I’m a whore, who wants to buy my vote.

Jeff

By: Dr. Slammy

Dr. Slammy — Sat, 24 Nov 2007 19:15:39 +0000

I look at the current crop of likely candidates and I WISH somebody would offer me a million bucks for my vote. That way at least SOMEbody besides fat cats would be profiting from the system.