[lbo-talk] Re: further adventures in political surrealism

[Michael Hoover]

>>> JBrown72073 at cs.com 02/16/06 10:47 AM >>>
Except it leaves the mystery of (1) why anyone in the lower 90% of income 
votes for Bush and (2) why people vote at all.  I mean, what motivates them, not 
'what's the point?'  Because a large percent--often a majority--don't vote.  
So voting as an act needs to have some more motivation than the empty 
exhortations 'don't forget to vote!' we get around election time.  
Jenny Brown
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poli sci 'choice theory' guru william riker's answer to #2 above: folks vote because 
they get something out of it that is unrelated to electoral outcomes...   mh