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Old 06-24-2015, 11:15 AM   #200 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by fiddler View Post
I'm military. It's a general rule of thumb that we don't vote in the Presidential election because 1) regardless of who gets picked they are our Commander and Chief, and we will follow their orders; 2) a huge vote either way by the military community would come off as fixing the elections.
That doesn't make sense. In 2013 the US military had approx. 1.4 million members. The number of US citizens eligible to vote was 235 million.

You guy's make up about one half of a percentage point in the grand scheme of things.

Splain Luzee.
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