<p>Sorry that bothered you so much, I was pointing out you should have just said that in the first place instead of name calling and making yourself not any better than me.</p>
<p>I am for it. I don’t agree that we are all equal; yes, discrimination must NOT be by race, ethnicity, gender etc., EXCEPT by intellect (and sex orientation).</p>
<p>So, I don’t want to equalize myself with stupid, and someone clever than me doesn’t want to equalize oneself with me. It’s the law of our world.</p>
<p>I have a better suggestion, instead of IQ (which, btw, doesn’t indicate your intelligence, no test can determine your intelligence), there should be a political test (about both candidates), if you’re gonna vote for A, and not B, then you should know what B has to offer, listening to one side of the story is lame, so the test determines how much you know about both candidates, and whether you’ve actually been paying attention to the debates (you also need to know what both of these candidates have for their nation before the beginning of the election year, and not just what they’ve been preaching a few months before the election), and the test resultes weights your vote.
WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK? I know someone who voted for Bush just because she thought he was more handsome than Kerry. LOL. He’s gonna affect the future of her country, and she’s voting based on his looks and nothing else, she also thought he was a democrat.</p>
<p>TTT, good point! voters should be tested for knowledge of different issues… instead of weighting the vote, though, what about just using the test for qualification, so whoever passes it gets to vote? i think weighting the test might put too much importance on it.</p>
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<p>What should we do about all those moms who voted for Kerry because Edwards was “cute and had nice hair” :)</p>
<p>“EXCEPT by intellect (and sex orientation).”</p>
<p>I understand “intellect” in the context of this thread…but what about the other one? How do you justify that?</p>
<p>So very ridiculous…why don’t we just let the best-looking or strongest people vote? Do those traits have nothing to do with ability to select the president? Neither does intelligence…Being a good president has to do with more factors than you can imagine.</p>
<p>HTH.</p>
<p>hahaha what a funny thread this is</p>
<p>The Republicans would never go for the IQ thing- their population base would be of lesser value lol. J/K that chart of all the average IQs and who they went for in the election thats been on the internet for the past month is fake- there are no average IQs for each state. Still, at least based on National Merit cutoffs, the highest states, like Massachusetts and Connecticut, are Democratic.</p>
<p>Well, keep in mind that state averages don’t matter, because it matters WHETHER each state goes red or blue for the electoral college. Unless, of course, number of electoral votes were weighted by the state’s average IQ. THAT would screw up the reds. Maybe they could do the same thing for congressional seats… suddenly I like this idea.</p>
<p>I kid, of course.</p>