Slog - Comments on GOP: Groovy Old Progressives? http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives That may be what some Washington State voters think, according to the latest Elway poll, which found that fully 25 percent of registered voters had no idea what the letters "GOP" stood for. What's worse: Seven percent actually thought "GOP" referred to the Democratic Party. Under the new rules governing the "top-two primary," candidates pick a "party preference"--an opportunity Republicans like gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi have been using to sow confusion. Like several other prominent Republicans, Rossi identified his party preference as "GOP Party," which is how it will appear on the ballot. It's a little scary to think Rossi... Copyright 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:37:14 -0800 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:23:09 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by mackro mackro Well, he almost scored half of the Dem vote in 2004, so I guess it's a matter of perspective.

]]> mackro mackro http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063937 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063937 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:43:59 -0800 Comment by leek "GOP Party"?! Really? He'll be using the ATM machine next.

]]> leek http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063947 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063947 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:51:12 -0800 Comment by Jubilation T. Cornball Goddammit, this really makes me mad. For the last time: It's NOT a preference!!!

Do you think Republicans actually WANT to be that way??? Always regressive, anti-anything not white, and all diabolical and shit??? Do you think Democrats just woke up one day and CHOSE to be smart (and correct)???

This is the last time I'll say this: people are BORN into their party, they do not PREFER or CHOOSE it.

Jeez...

]]> Jubilation T. Cornball http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063948 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063948 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:51:38 -0800 Comment by boxofbirds For that to happen the voter would have to both be ignorant of what GOP means and not know which candidate is a democrat and which is republican before they see the ballot. In which case, I find it unlikely that they would be able to find a polling place.

]]> boxofbirds http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063950 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063950 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:53:02 -0800 Comment by elenchos Or when people say "PIN number." Don't forget "PIN number!" Fucking fuckers.

Why don't you bastards go use quotes or parentheses instead of bold or italic for emphasis? Huh? While you're at it. Why don't you stick an apostrophe in front of a plural S? Because that's how they do. Yeah, you know what you're doing and I know it and you know I know. I'll get even. Some day.

]]> elenchos http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063951 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063951 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:53:48 -0800 Comment by um @2 you beat me to it. that shit annoys me to no end, that is reason enough not to vote for him. dumbass.

]]> um http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063952 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063952 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:54:34 -0800 Comment by Dan Savage Grand Old Party Party?

]]> Dan Savage http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063953 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063953 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:55:59 -0800 Comment by COMTE This Just In: many people are intellectual morons who should not be allowed to breed and pass on their defective genes to future generations.

]]> COMTE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063956 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063956 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:57:10 -0800 Comment by Nightlifejitters GOP = Guard Our Plunder

]]> Nightlifejitters http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063958 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063958 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:57:40 -0800 Comment by Ziggity Stranger bloggers just shouldn't quote statistics. It just leads to laughable assertions that "25% of registered voters" will do something, based solely on 25% of respondents to a poll of which the methodology, population, and margin of error seem nowhere to be found - can anyone provide links to this?

]]> Ziggity http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063961 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063961 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:59:31 -0800 Comment by Vince Pitiful, just pitiful.

]]> Vince http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063966 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063966 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:02:24 -0800 Comment by umvue Bad. But considering that only around 50% of adult Americans know how long it takes for the Earth to go around the Sun (if indeed it does go around the sun), not all that bad.

http://www.nsf.gov/statistics/seind08/c7/tt07-05.htm

]]> umvue http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063982 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063982 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:21:12 -0800 Comment by flamingbanjo Greedy Ol' Patriarchy? Gross Ol' Perverts? Global Oil Plutocracy?

]]> flamingbanjo http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063999 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1063999 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 17:40:18 -0800 Comment by david Don't forget the redundancy:
GOP Party = Grand Old Party Party

]]> david http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064040 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064040 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 18:33:22 -0800 Comment by Luke God-Okayed Pedophilia Party

]]> Luke http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064089 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064089 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 20:20:31 -0800 Comment by RHETT ORACLE You'd think an acronym-text-obsessed cyber society would know from GOP. U wld B rong. Traveling up and down Cape Cod what about GAR? Any ideas? How about the WACS? And V-E or V-J Day? Or even IBM or NCR for the sake of JMJ? O it's OK 2B ignorant. Was actually surprised to never once during the daily black-washing of Hillary that she was never referred to as SNAWW. Explications upon request.

]]> RHETT ORACLE http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064099 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064099 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:09:33 -0800 Comment by RainMan Gruesome Odious Pusillanimous
Ghoulish Obnoxious Pigs
Goat Ogling Psychos
Grotesquely Overindulged Poopheads
Gamma Omega Pi Frat Boys

Hey, this is fun...

]]> RainMan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064100 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064100 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 21:09:56 -0800 Comment by leek david, i hope your post was a meta-comment on redundancy.

]]> leek http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064118 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064118 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:25:21 -0800 Comment by montex I don't understand why Republicans get away with using deceptive language on every ballot, every year. I can't count the number of times I've cast a vote for a measure that I wasn't completely sure I understood, and then found out when it was explained to me in plain english that it meant the opposite of what I thought.

The newest thing is labeling themselves GOP instead of Republican. And, of course, the Democrats let them get away with it - as they do with everything else. I expect their next move to be calling themselves the party that loves their mothers.

I'll never vote for a member of the Republican party for as long as I live - and if I meet one of those ignorant bitches who thinks GOP means Democrat, I'm going to slap their stupid ass faces.

]]> montex http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064119 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064119 2008 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 22:26:49 -0800 Comment by Will in Seattle Everyone knows GOP stands for Gross Osama-bin-Laden-lovin Partisans ...

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064151 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064151 2008 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 00:33:47 -0800 Comment by Porco Rosso Actually, does the GOP stand for anything these days?

I mean other than Greedy Obstructionist Perverts...

]]> Porco Rosso http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064179 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064179 2008 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 07:23:08 -0800 Comment by prenks You know, I'm Canadian and the first time I saw GOP I understood that it referred to the Republican party. I mean, your country only has two parties. Is it really that hard to keep them straight?

]]> prenks http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064187 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064187 2008 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:08:34 -0800 Comment by Greg This poll is misleading. Way more than 25% of registered voters are fucking morons.

]]> Greg http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064222 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064222 2008 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:50:51 -0800 Comment by Ramdu See, they should call it the GO Party. It's not redundant, and it sounds so happening! Let's GO!!!!!!

]]> Ramdu http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064276 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1064276 2008 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 09:43:48 -0800 Comment by ouzel 7% of Americans are dumb as fuck, apparently.

]]> ouzel http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1065058 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/07/gop_groovy_old_progressives#c1065058 2008 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:23:09 -0800