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Obama leading McCain among Xbox voters Posted by XanTium | September 22 22:02 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From the press release: In one of the nation's largest unofficial election polls, Senator Barack Obama leads the vote by a 12 percent margin, while 26 percent voted "undecided" or "other." These results do not map to national trends, which show Senator Obama and Senator McCain to be pacing neck and neck, and provide insight into a unique subset of young engaged citizens. According to the results from Xbox LIVE's poll, when it comes to deciding who should be the next President, the jury is still out for many. Nearly 100,000 LIVE Americans turned out to cast their "votes" in a poll over Xbox LIVE, making it larger than the combined samples from individual Gallup, NBC, and CNN polls. Part of an initiative to help register new voters for this year's election, Xbox LIVE has partnered with Rock the Vote, turning the Xbox 360 into an unexpected political forum. Results from the first-ever poll over Xbox LIVE indicate the following: Obama \ Biden:          43% McCain \ Palin:           31% Undecided:                 13% Other:                         13% In its first two weeks of the program, more than 55,000 voter registration forms were downloaded through Xbox LIVE and xbox.com. Additionally, videos from the recent Democratic and Republican conventions were downloaded nearly 25,000 times. To-date, the Xbox LIVE community has downloaded more than 350,000 pieces of program-specific content, ranging from candidate gamerpics* to videos and Rock the Vote logos. That's nearly five times the amount of people present at Barack Obama's acceptance speech during the Democratic Convention in Denver.

[TexT]

Go Obama/Biden!

[Ranger72]

If you think of what the NeoCons have done to this country over the last 8 years you would think it would be a landslide victory for Obama.

But then again there are many people out there that actually likes how they have been able to accomplish in 8 year what no other nation could ever have done to us with all the weapons on the world.

4 more years of this and there wont be a country left to save anymore.

[calloused labia]

QUOTE(Ranger72 @ Sep 23 2008, 12:15 AM)

If you think of what the NeoCons have done to this country over the last 8 years you would think it would be a landslide victory for Obama.

But then again there are many people out there that actually likes how they have been able to accomplish in 8 year what no other nation could ever have done to us with all the weapons on the world.

4 more years of this and there wont be a country left to save anymore.

+1

[traderj]

Accept we seem to forget that probably most of the votes are from underage kids that can't vote in the first place. Don't lie, we all have changed our age to take part in something not for our age bracket.

Kinda like the Kids Vote thing I saw on the news the other day. They can't comprehend whats really going on and that's why they can't vote at that age.

I seriously think we're f***ed no matter who gets in but I have to stress that the Democrats are the majority in congress right now. Doesn't seem like their doing any better then the first 4 years. In fact in the past 2 years our economy went down the tubes and we are paying $3.50 a gallon for gas even though a barrel of oil is back down to the normal $94. You can't blame everything on just one person people, the government consists of more then just a president and his cabinet.

[pancus]

I would vote Obama but he doesn't have any tiger cage experience, and thats very important for any future president, plus he's not a "Maverick" lol

[sgr215]

I have no idea who I'm going to vote for but it won't really matter anyways; I won't be voting for Obama or McCain. It's sad that people actually believe these two parties are really that much different from each other. It's either vote for the guy who says he'll "change" but doesn't really explain just what that means or vote for the guy you know won't change anything but hey.. he's a Maverick! He voted against Bush 5% of the time!!!1!1!ONE!! To make things even worse McCain will immediately get 25% of the vote because of his chosen religion alone. (Apparently being "Pro-Life" only applies to fetuses. Iraqi children and health care for all don't count.) Think that's absurd? The evangelicals make up 25% of America and they openly tell their members who to vote for or face the wrath of God. (Perhaps not that bluntly but very close to it.)

[Chimp5000]

I'd like the politics to stay away from my videogames, thanx.

[mastaassmasta]

soooo obama is leading in the 9-25 year old group then? very accurate :b

[chorizo1]

McCain is a MARVERICK he crashed like 4 or 5 jets, how many has Obama crashed?

Obama has ZERO experience in crashing jets, which really makes you wonder, why does Obama hate jets? Does he hate the new york jets? We Crash jets in video games all the time, why doesn't Obama?

Barrack Obama = Fighter jet Discrimination.


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This post has been edited by chorizo1: Sep 23 2008, 07:14 AM

[sgr215]

QUOTE(chorizo1 @ Sep 23 2008, 02:47 AM)

McCain is a MARVERICK he crashed like 4 or 5 jets, how many has Obama crashed?

Obama has ZERO experience in crashing jets, which really makes you wonder, why does Obama hate jets? Does he hate the new york jets? We Crash jets in video games all the time, why doesn't Obama?

Barrack Obama = Fighter jet Discrimination.
My name is Chorizo1, and I approve this message.

You owe me a new keyboard/monitor.  

[metalcoat]

The price of a barrel of Brent Crude Oil is now over $120, and the contract for delivered oil in November is about $104.  Now there are so many factors causing the price to fluctuate daily, especially with the bail-out of several banks and investors switching to commodity markets.  People need to understand this before just rifling off stupid comments about how this is the government's fault.  We as citizens need to take responsibility and to take action to demand from our government and elected leaders that what we need is a change.  I'm not here to have you vote for a certain candidate, just be informed about what the real problems are.  Get the facts!  Make an informed decision.  Remember there just isn't two parties and voting for someone else that truly represents your beliefs isn't a waste.  You have to show that whoever may win this election that all these things need to be looked at.

Edit: Brent crude dropped back down since midday to $101

This post has been edited by metalcoat: Sep 23 2008, 07:46 AM

[_GhOsT_]

im starting to hate both candidates. ill waste my vote and vote for the 3rd party

[oozingrectum]

I normally would bring up political views, but since this is on topic..

A bourgeoisie Neo-Con or a bourgeoisie Neo-Liberal? Ah, the choices! Yet again, I'll be voting Socialist [Brian Moore / Stewart Alexander of SP-USA this time].

This post has been edited by oozingrectum: Sep 23 2008, 10:11 AM

[ishtar]

Ya right change you can believe in He He , and he picks an old cronie who is dead set against change , just goes to show he knows absoulty ziltcho about politics and the people who vote for him are just as dimwitted as him ...