Tim Blair

Punk voter coalition??

I thought the whole punk raison d'etre was being disaffected with society - in a country without compulsory voting, I'll bet the total number of 'punk' votes cast is 2.

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Thanks Tim, that DJ Earthquake article is priceless.

Katrina, first and final warning: you seem to be a real commenter, but you need to take your "Visit Pyxis Review!" nonsense out of every single thing you post. You are giving people the impression that you are spam, and if enough people are irate, I will have to ban you. The place for off-topic urls, such as your own website, is in the url field of the comment form. If people want to visit your homepage or blog or whatever it is, they'll do it from there.

geez, lighten up. It's the weekend...

What does "it's the weekend" have to do with anything? And if you don't care that people think you are spamming the comments because you have the same thing in every comment you make, you may be spending your weekend lightened of the burden of commenting here.

YES!!! That's what I'm talkin' 'bout, Andrea!

I guess that's the difference between me and the Dems...they lose sleep after a democratically held election, while I lost sleep after 9/11...

Punk Voter? Another oxymoron. Punks are supposed to care one bit.

The only punk I woulda listened to stabbed his girlfriend to death and then od'ed in the Chelsea.

Ushie, yeah cause he was a punk first and a musician second. It is amazing how these punk muppets think that 1. no Punk fans having any brains 2. they all are naturally lefties.

Florida is not quite the Punk Voter target demographic.

As far as punks go, not all of them are in the Democratic camp. It's just the Democratic or otherwise leftly-inclinded ones that get attention. For some reason, the others tend to stay quiet. Being on a compilation entitled "Rock Against Bush Vol. 1" will garner more news than passively agreeing with Bush and not saying anything.

Katrina, being a punk doesn't automatically make you unconcerned with politics. I'd say punks are just as likely to vote as anyone else in society. Apathy is a general problem. And punk music, often politically motivated, is likely to get people to vote.

Just as likely as, say, a country song by Toby Keith.

I'm an old-school crusty punk, who votes Libertarian every chance I get. Most of my friends consider the Dems a party of arrogant, hippie, baby boomers who can't seem to get their asses out of the 60's. I notice my friends tend to vote across the board when it comes to issues and also tend to be Libertarians, like myself, or Independent.

Hey Katrina, I think you should refer to the line in the movie "Slackers" that discusses the difference between apathy and recoiling in disgust when refering to most "US punk" viewpoints on the political system in the States.

some of the punk bands aren't even american

sum-41, good charlotte

Well, Sum-41 is from Canada and Good Charlotte is from the USA, I think Maryland

Encouraging knowing that even punks have seen the light. Reps will be surprised by the massive mobilisation against Bush on voting day. It will leave Bush (and the few people who refuse to see the truth) all alone against the world.