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These petitions don't really seem to matter -- there are plenty without a response. Previously, the administration "promised" to respond to all w/ 25,000 signat
by mscarborough 13y ago
These petitions don't really seem to matter -- there are plenty without a response. Previously, the administration "promised" to respond to all w/ 25,000 signatures. Now it's 100k.
What policies have been affected in any way by these things? Takes about 5 seconds to sign one once you have an account, so the results seem to be pretty close to the effort it requires from the public.
Voted for Obama twice but he's just as much of a liar as any other politician.
- thenewkid 13y agoThe petitions are a good way to gather a list of names for analysis at a later date... just saying!
- betterunix 13y ago"Voted for Obama twice but he's just as much of a liar as any other politician." Then why did you vote for him? You had a lot of other options: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_third_party_and_independent_presidential_candidates,_2012 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_third_party_and_...
- mscarborough 13y agoNot to be off-topic but because you asked... Because the only other real options for P/VP in 2008 and 2012 were even scarier to me each time, and I live in a swing state. I also wasn't wowed by the third party candidates (but have voted for third party candidates before).