> 25% Bush and 50% no vote and 25% whoever means to me that 75% did not
> vote for Bush.

I somewhat disagree about that.  The way I see it is that those who do 
not vote,
put in their vote as "I don't care" even if that "I don't care" really 
means "I
don't care because I don't like any of my choices".  If that 50% actually did
go to the booths and did not choose anyone, then it drives a different 
message,
that is, "Hey I care, but none of these choices are good for me".  Not 
voting is
not the same as "I did not vote for you", it says "I'm fine with whomever
everybody else chooses".

I've been in the US for just under 20 years now and finally became a citizen 2
years ago, and last year was the first time I was able to vote.  There was no
way I was not going to show up to vote just because I did not like the 
names on
that form.  Since I had never voted before I was rather surprised to find out
that you could actually write down some random name in some of the spots where
you did not like the choices you had.  So Mickey Mouse got a few votes from me
last year =)


-Mario

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