He's Not Like Us

Gen X (0.00 / 0)

Say anything you want about Romney, but please don't tell me what I'm like.

Do you know how Gen X got its name? It's because we're the generation that doesn't like to be labeled, categorized, and told who we are and what we think.

If you want to turn off a lot of Gen Xers to Obama, show them this. And yes, that attitude is why Gen Xers are less politically active, on average, than either Boomers or Millennials--they make up no one's base. But we still vote, sometimes, and if anyone wants our vote, then never, ever tell us what we're like or who we are.

(And yes, I get the irony of using broad generalizations about Gen X in this critique! Cue the Gen Xers commenting that what I've said doesn't apply to them, and how much they like the post!)

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by: SarahLawrence Scott @ Thu Jul 12, 2012 at 14:16:42 PM UTC

Really, Scott? (0.00 / 0)

Do you have a yacht, a car elevator, 7 mansions, ownership of someone else's mortgage, off-shore bank accounts, $110 million in an IRA? Really?

This is NOT generational, and it's not generalized -- these are things he HAS as compared to what the rest of us have.  

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by: DocJess @ Thu Jul 12, 2012 at 19:29:53 PM UTC

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so by all means then, vote for Romney because (0.00 / 0)

someone told you not to, the characteristics you described are those of a five year old, not a generation, and the fact that so many post boomers think there is no difference between the Parties, and claim independence, is why they have been so masterfully manipulated by the Republicans, and have voted to diminish their independence thinking they were declaring it.

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by: joe.giannasio @ Fri Jul 13, 2012 at 00:12:23 AM UTC

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Gen X (0.00 / 0)

Okay, I'm Gen X, born in 1970. Voting strongly for Obama and I don't care who labels me what. Also, love the post!

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by: ranger11 @ Fri Jul 13, 2012 at 09:45:17 AM UTC

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A Labeling in itself ;o) (0.00 / 0)

Do you know how Gen X got its name? It's because we're the generation that doesn't like to be labeled, categorized, and told who we are and what we think.

Sorry Scott, just had to rag on you for that one. LOL

All in good fun.......
;o)

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by: Emit R Detsaw @ Sat Jul 14, 2012 at 18:03:58 PM UTC

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Delegate Selection (0.00 / 0)

Nebraska is not the same as Massachusetts.

In Massachusetts, Romney won the delegates in the primary, and (due to the weak Republican rules) the Ron Paul campaign tried to take some fo those delegates away in the selection process.  While some of the efforts to strengthen the pledge provisions in the rules went beyond the scope previously authorized, Ron Paul was not entitled to those delegates.

In Nebraska, nobody has yet won any delegates.  While there will certainly be some attempts by the party leadership to push a pro-Romney delegation at the state convention, the state convention is free to pick a pro-Paul delegation under the state rules.  As such, any attempt to take those delegate slots back after the convention would be an actual violation of the rules rather than the bending of the rules that took place in Massachusetts.

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by: tmess2 @ Thu Jul 12, 2012 at 23:44:48 PM UTC