RADAR ALERT: 13.5% of Likely Voters Say "Fix VAWA Now!"

Submitted by Matt on Tue, 2008-09-16 21:06

It's election season and politicians are looking for votes.

One way to convince politicians that the politics is on our side is to show them the votes they will get by supporting a given policy. RADAR has calculated that 13.5% of likely voters, or 16.5 million voters, think the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and the intrusive state-level domestic violence laws that flow from it are deeply flawed [cite]. The tables at the bottom of that page [cite] show how we calculated the numbers and the number and percentage of voters in each state.

People adversely affected by VAWA, and their family members, represent a cross section of the electorate and very often feel so strongly about what happened to them that any promise to fix VAWA would override all other issues, and could well be the factor that determines which candidate they vote for.

Please contact candidates from both parties.

  1. Look up the numbers for your state here.
  2. Show them your state's numbers. Explain that they will win votes if they make a commitment to fixing VAWA and intrusive state domestic violence laws to prevent their provisions from being misused against the innocent.
  3. Explain to them that VAWA inspired domestic violence laws clog our courts with false claims of domestic violence, which prevents true victims from getting help.

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Date of RADAR Release: September 16, 2008

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R.A.D.A.R. – Respecting Accuracy in Domestic Abuse Reporting – is a non-profit, non-partisan organization of men and women working to improve the effectiveness of our nation's approach to solving domestic violence. http://www.mediaradar.org/

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Unfortunately, 75.5% of voters cannot distinguish between Tina Fey and Sarah Palin.

McCain is a pimp.

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Submitted by Roy on Wed, 2008-09-17 02:49

manonthestreet

The concrete nature of societies thinking is something that is for me depressing and terrifying. Old as I am I was not living during the thirties. If I had been living in Germany at that time I think I would be experiencing a similar decent in to the abyss as I am now. There have always been dissenters, and I guess always they have been ineffective. To my perspective the evil of the past has not vanished but just migrated and now inhabits the most powerful nation on earth. I talking of the USA if you miss the point. America is now irredeemable evil. Yes there are noble and self-sacrificing Americans but the nation itself is evil. There is no axis of evil , which wont bother you if you leave them alone, there is just the USA - God help us.

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Submitted by trotter on Wed, 2008-09-17 17:26

Yeah, and unfortunately the majority of American males don't seem to be able to distinguish between the misandric tyrant who gave us VAWA, Joseph "Stalin" Biden and Saint Frances of Assisi.

Also, most males don't even know what MISANDRY means.

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Submitted by Luek on Thu, 2008-09-18 02:31

I think it has more to do with intrusion of government into private citizens' lives, especially over family matters (as explained in Baskerville's book). A lot of these people have probably suffered under the family court system and its minions (lawyers, judges, plainclothes police, psychotherapists, social workers, psychiatrists, collectors, etc).
-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Thu, 2008-09-18 03:29

with Bush at the helm, no doubt we have alienated most other countries. Another factor is foreigners holding ill will against us out of spite, as shown by the mentality of "Now you know what it's like!" (referring to 9/11).

But that doesn't have a whole lot to do with the advent of fascism we as a country are facing internally, at least with regards to the family court system. In fact the U.S. would probably have to be the first country to "overthrow" feminists-fascists, then the other countries will follow (at least in the West).

-ax

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Submitted by axolotl on Thu, 2008-09-18 03:40