View Poll Results: How would you classify yourself politically?
Liberal
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55.10%
Moderate
22
22.45%
Conservative
22
22.45%
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What are C&V owners politically
12-27-07, 05:42 PM
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What are C&V owners politically
How would you classify yourself politically?
12-27-07, 05:56 PM
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politics are like poetry and underwear.
Useful in the right forum, but otherwise something you should share only with your SO & grandmother.
Useful in the right forum, but otherwise something you should share only with your SO & grandmother.
12-27-07, 06:05 PM
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Does anyone think Velocity Deep V's would look dumb on a (fully-geared) Miyata 912? (I need to reliably support 240lbs, not a hipster here.) 
12-27-07, 06:07 PM
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So does that make me a liberal or a communist?
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12-27-07, 06:10 PM
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See that I am a Conservative,
probably both!
Regards,
J T
probably both!
Regards,
J T
12-27-07, 06:12 PM
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I like pie.
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12-27-07, 06:14 PM
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12-27-07, 06:35 PM
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I'm bike-partisan.
12-27-07, 06:39 PM
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12-27-07, 07:26 PM
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12-27-07, 07:39 PM
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What does it matter? I worship at the church of old, lugged steel. 
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12-27-07, 07:45 PM
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We are Honest, so politics are not realevent. Honestly, who cares.
Redneckwes for President in '08, I'm running on the obcessive compulsive junk hunter ticket.
Redneckwes for President in '08, I'm running on the obcessive compulsive junk hunter ticket.
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12-27-07, 07:52 PM
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ah, I wuz gonna run fer president...famous first quote:
"...we love ya, hadji, but you suck, so we're outta here..."
saves us about a billion dollars a month. do I get a finder's fee?
"...we love ya, hadji, but you suck, so we're outta here..."
saves us about a billion dollars a month. do I get a finder's fee?
12-27-07, 07:53 PM
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yes- please, please no politics. really.
but since you asked, i vote for dogs and steel. analog over digital in my music, vintage over new. leather, cotton and wool. bamboo over graphite, and always two wheels over four. long live the revolution!
but since you asked, i vote for dogs and steel. analog over digital in my music, vintage over new. leather, cotton and wool. bamboo over graphite, and always two wheels over four. long live the revolution!
12-27-07, 08:14 PM
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I am dead-center on an American scale*, which arguably makes me somewhat conservative among citizens of first-world countries. I am surprised and disappointed to see so few self-identified moderates in this poll, because I contend that we centrists comprise a 47% plurality, i.e., a near-majority, of American voters. If we could get our act together and stop being divided among independents, Democrats, and Republicans, we could take back control of this country from the two overly polarized major parties.
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* I lean a bit right on economic issues and a bit left on the environment.
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* I lean a bit right on economic issues and a bit left on the environment.
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"Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing." --Theodore Roosevelt
Capo: 1959 Modell Campagnolo, S/N 40324; 1960 Sieger (2), S/N 42624, 42597
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12-27-07, 08:21 PM
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I like old bikes
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12-27-07, 08:37 PM
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How about some of you actually checking...
https://www.politicalcompass.org/
I run a private forum for a group of friends from back in the 70's. We used to hang out in our high school days.
For the group, everyone who took the test was in the lower left quadrant (liberal). Two of us were very close to the center point between the quadrants, which earned us the label of "flaming moderates" in the gang.
So, I went with moderate.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/
I run a private forum for a group of friends from back in the 70's. We used to hang out in our high school days.
For the group, everyone who took the test was in the lower left quadrant (liberal). Two of us were very close to the center point between the quadrants, which earned us the label of "flaming moderates" in the gang.
So, I went with moderate.
12-27-07, 09:00 PM
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12-27-07, 09:06 PM
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I'm the kind of guy who both the Christian Coalition and Move On would hate with a vengeance.
I'm a life member of the NRA who supports gay marriage; wants the government to deal with national defense, regulate interstate commerce, and virtually nothing else; wants a flat income tax collected on April 15th with no withholding so the taxpayer can actually see what the government is taking from him (as well as forcing him to actually save the money prior to payment - nothing like a little fiscal discipline to make a better life); is an absolute hater of anything politically correct (years ago I quit quitting smoking because it started to become mandatory); and as long as my sex life consists of (fill in the number depending on my mood at the moment) consenting adults, will brook absolutely no restrictions as to whatever practices I care to indulge in this weekend. Oh yeah, I'm also a patch wearing outlaw biker. And am an absolute believer in personal responsibility for whatever actions I've been indulging in - none of this lawyer crap.
I guess that makes me a libertarian in principal - except that the libertarians disgust me with their ineffectiveness. You don't run a candidate for president until you've won a lot of local elections for dog catcher and country commissioner positions.
I'm a life member of the NRA who supports gay marriage; wants the government to deal with national defense, regulate interstate commerce, and virtually nothing else; wants a flat income tax collected on April 15th with no withholding so the taxpayer can actually see what the government is taking from him (as well as forcing him to actually save the money prior to payment - nothing like a little fiscal discipline to make a better life); is an absolute hater of anything politically correct (years ago I quit quitting smoking because it started to become mandatory); and as long as my sex life consists of (fill in the number depending on my mood at the moment) consenting adults, will brook absolutely no restrictions as to whatever practices I care to indulge in this weekend. Oh yeah, I'm also a patch wearing outlaw biker. And am an absolute believer in personal responsibility for whatever actions I've been indulging in - none of this lawyer crap.
I guess that makes me a libertarian in principal - except that the libertarians disgust me with their ineffectiveness. You don't run a candidate for president until you've won a lot of local elections for dog catcher and country commissioner positions.
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“No one in this world, so far as I know — and I have searched the records for years, and employed agents to help me — has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.”
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12-27-07, 09:08 PM
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Little Darwin - took the political compass test and am in the lower left quadrant as well. Me, your friends and Gandhi. I will assume Gandhi was an avid biker, cycling through India while leading the masses.