2006 Elections--The Dixie Chicks--An Inconvenient Truth--Al Gore

The people are speaking loud and clear! Who is listening?

Some PEOPLE somewhere vote for them. Much of it is based on sales, etc. I stand by my post.

and only group members can vote.

the academy awards and grammys are not american idull.

Msongs
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:shrug:

Those award-giving bodies, like pretty much all award giving bodies, are small cadres of industry insiders. The claim that their opinions about the products of their industry can be extrapolated to reflect the beliefs of a MUCH larger group about something else altogether is totally unsupportable.

They are people. Whether they are the "masses" or not...they are people out there recognizing a message.

The almost universal acclaim for F911 failed to produce a Kerry landslide. Pop culture simply is not a good predictor of what will happen politically.

Another example: the roughly 10% of Americans who disapproved of Bush at the height of his post 9/11 popularity were people. They were people out there recognizing a message. That doesn't mean they were significant.

Do tell because I certainly do not remember that.

Freepers hated it and were loud about it, surprise surprise.

But it was not even close to being universal or international.

Nomination ballots are mailed to members of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in December, and must be returned within two weeks in order for their vote to be counted. The secret ballots must be returned directly to PricewaterhouseCoopers, the accounting firm in charge of processing the votes.

PricewaterhouseCoopers tabulates the votes and the final list of nominees is announced in January. Another round of secret voting takes place, with members of the Academy only able to vote on the final nominees listed in each category. Those ballots must be returned to PricewaterhouseCoopers within two weeks. After the ballots are tabulated, only two partners of PricewaterhouseCoopers will know the results until the envelopes are opened on stage during the Academy Awards presentation.

SOURCE: The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
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If all people voted, we would've had Superman Returns nominated for best picture, or Star Wars would've won best picture in 1977, E.T. would win in 1982, etc. I don't like the Oscars anyways because they don't care for what the audience thinks.

sways them to vote for certain things....:shrug:

Oscar winner
Nobel nominee
Democratic Nominee

The next president of the United States:

I think even if Al doesn't decide to run, we should all write him in on the ballot and force him to be president because that's what we want.

Marisa Tomei for VP!

:popcorn:

I must have lost my ballot.

Anyway...my predictio on the percentage of people in the auditorium last night who saw Inconvenient Truth: less than 15%.

I bought both. Regardless of if I had an actual ballot in my hand...my support of these projects contributed to the winning.