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You wouldn't know it from this Bored, but a recent Rasmussen poll indicates Americans are arguing less about the elections this year than in 2012. Only 20% report having a heated argument with a friend or family member about the election, compared to 45% who reported such an argument at a similar time in the 2012 cycle. Of course, it may simply be that, just as here, many people have come to realize that arguing with someone is highly unlikely to change their opinion or their vote. Or it may be that, as here, they just don't have as many friends because they've all left their social networks....

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_ ... tion_cycle

Or it could be an indicator of a landslide to one side of the aisle. People aren't arguing as much because they agree more.

silverscreenselect wrote:Of course, it may simply be that, just as here, many people have come to realize that arguing with someone is highly unlikely to change their opinion or their vote.

^ This.

I no longer talk to the people I argued with in 2012.

I would bet it's simply because most people pay less attention to non-presidential elections.

silverscreenselect wrote:You wouldn't know it from this Bored....

How so? In most threads, I see the same three or four people arguing back and forth. A lot more people were wasting their time arguing in political threads in past elections... it's down to the die hards now with the occasional naive interjection by an outsider...

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littlebeast13 wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:You wouldn't know it from this Bored....

How so? In most threads, I see the same three or four people arguing back and forth. A lot more people were wasting their time arguing in political threads in past elections... it's down to the die hards now with the occasional naive interjection by an outsider...

lb13

An argument here is a spectator sport, not that there are any spectators

littlebeast13 wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:You wouldn't know it from this Bored....

How so? In most threads, I see the same three or four people arguing back and forth. A lot more people were wasting their time arguing in political threads in past elections... it's down to the die hards now with the occasional naive interjection by an outsider...

lb13

An argument here is a spectator sport, not that there are any spectators

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:

silverscreenselect wrote:You wouldn't know it from this Bored....

How so? In most threads, I see the same three or four people arguing back and forth. A lot more people were wasting their time arguing in political threads in past elections... it's down to the die hards now with the occasional naive interjection by an outsider...

lb13

An argument here is a spectator sport, not that there are any spectators

If that were true, the spectators would still be here. Most people who don't enjoy gratuitous negativity have moved on.

Are not. --Bob

TheConfessor wrote:

themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:

littlebeast13 wrote:

How so? In most threads, I see the same three or four people arguing back and forth. A lot more people were wasting their time arguing in political threads in past elections... it's down to the die hards now with the occasional naive interjection by an outsider...

lb13

An argument here is a spectator sport, not that there are any spectators

If that were true, the spectators would still be here. Most people who don't enjoy gratuitous negativity have moved on.

I read the threads but have nothing/little to contribute either way, so all I do is read the threads.