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marmar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 09:51 PM
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Has anyone noticed that registrations to this site...
seem to be increasing by several hundred each week lately?

:applause: :woohoo: :applause: :woohoo: :headbang: :yourock:
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GreenPartyVoter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 09:53 PM
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1. And some are even people who are here to do more than troll. It's great
that we have so many new folk rolling in and looking to see how they can help save this country!
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karlrschneider Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 09:53 PM
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2. I haven't been watching but when I signed up there were ~20,000
:D
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 09:53 PM
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3. Yes, and judging from the posts, they are overwhelmingly legit DUers as
well. This is a good thing.
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silverweb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 09:54 PM
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4. It's all Maveric's fault.
I have it on good authority that he carries around extra DU bumper stickers and uses them for recruiting purposes.

:D
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jobycom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 09:55 PM
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5. Even excluding the basketballs, we've been growing.
Basketballs, you know, those who come here to see how many times they can get bounced?
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qanda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 09:55 PM
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6. Yes, and yet the donations seem to be stuck in the 700s
Ante up FOLKS!!!!
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justinsb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 09:58 PM
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7. I made a prediction a few months ago
that there would soon be born again Democrats. (as in "I swear I've always been a liberal dem, I wasn't posting venom on Freerepublic last year") I believe there is a component of that. When winter comes the grasshopper extols the virtues of the ants.
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AuntieM1957 Donating Member (775 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 10:04 PM
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9. never underestimate the desire to fit in
some people just can't stand to swim against the current.

a little frightening to me.
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justinsb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 10:08 PM
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11. Well, if the current has shifted
that's good enough for now. A few years ago the lemmings were lining up to follow Bush toward the brink, if they are now lining up behind someone headed in the opposite direction then, the person they're following needs to move as fast as possible before they change their minds again.
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niallmac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 10:02 PM
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8. As a newbie I am getting the urge
to get a DU coffee mug, t shirt and baseball cap (my bumper sticker is on the way). This is as close as I come to hobbling a mile on bloody knees to the cross.
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AuntieM1957 Donating Member (775 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 10:07 PM
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10. Twelve Step Help is on the way
Your higher power surely doesn't need your bloody knees.

No need to "Skinner" your knees.

:pals:
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niallmac Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 11:29 PM
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17. HA!
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Divernan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 10:10 PM
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12. A friend couldn't open my email of DU article cause he wasn't registered.
on DU. He just told me that yesterday. I'm talking about my emailing him a link to a DU thread. Is that correct? If that's the case, a lot of people are registering just to open a single email and may or may not be sticking around.
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Alcibiades Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 10:32 PM
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13. Not everybody
who is new here is a newbie Democrat, or certainly not an ex-Republican looking to "fit in with the newly liberal mood of the country" (God, I wish that that were true.)

Like a lot of folks I basically made working on the Kerry campaign my full-time job last year. After that, I was a wee burnt out, but I learned about DU from some folks I met during the campaign. So I registered a while back.

I think that could be it--a lot of folks still energized from the campaign who got sucked into this whole politics on the Internet thing that the kids are into have finally gotten around to registering on DU.
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think4yourself Donating Member (422 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 10:40 PM
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14. Lurking No More!
Just registered today after lurking for a year. I LOVE it here!!
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toey Donating Member (568 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 10:46 PM
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16. welcome think4yourself!!!!!
:hi:
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Alcibiades Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 12:02 AM
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18. Welcome
I too, lurked for a while before registering.
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newyawker99 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 08:00 AM
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20. Hi think4yourself!!
Welcome to DU!! :toast:
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faithfulcitizen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Aug-18-05 10:42 PM
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15. funny that you mentioned it...
Hannity has been talking about du a lot on his radio show. (Yes, i listen to it, I love to hear it when he gets so worked up.)
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anitar1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Aug-19-05 12:12 AM
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19. I talked to the people around me at the vigil last night
and told them about DU. Many had never heard of it and were happy to have the info. I am so into DU that it surprises me when people don't know about it.
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