I'm calling Rock the Vote out.
I'm calling Rock the Vote out. As a resource for voter registration information and as a driving force to register as many votes as possible, their goal is admirable. However, as I opened my copy of The Collegiate Times, I found an insert titled, "You Decide. You Vote." This informative and colorful piece of paper apparently tells me the basics of each candidate's platform, so that I may make an informed decision. Were I an uninformed new voter, I might have used this as my deciding point.
However, this is the most biased piece of literature I have ever encountered in my life. Every quote and reference to McCain's platform, while likely containing some truth, is riddled with statements designed to make the Republican hopeful appear as callous and stingy as possible, while the Democrat columns are practically an endorsement. I expect better from a group such as Rock the Vote, but since it actually says Rock the Vote Action Fund at the bottom, perhaps the incredibly wary eye would know what was going on. I voted for Obama, but thankfully not as a result of this insert.
Brian Fults
junior, computer science
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I agree. It was quite misleading for the literature to make you believe there was a difference between the two socialists running. Here are some of the thins they agree on: Government ownership of banks, Government ownership of other companies, to big to fail, more foreign wars, government health care, fiat currency, more regulation of industry (the cause of the housing bubble), sharing the wealth, ad infinitum.
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"most biased piece of literature I have ever encountered in my life"? really? I think the piece was directional but it was more factually accurate and less biased than most of what I read in the media or see on "TV news." Could you guys post a copy for us to look at?
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