I honestly can't remember, but it was in my bookmarks so it must have been a site I stumbled over and wanted to come back to later.

Wertz and I have a mutual livejournal friend, and he linked to an entry that was from AD in a comment there.

American Forum was hacked and closed - I had a member refer me to this forum. I've also noticed several other members from AF log on, but I've also noted that they are not posting.

I used Google. I typed in "drudge report" and found your thread on it.
Oddly enough, my lacrosse forum had a politics section set up for the election, but they took it down...

I was googling all things that were removed related to Christianity.

I was referred to this forum by a member after the www.bushvskerry04.com forum was closed down after the November election.

I was assigned a report in my English class on Socialism, and google took me to one of your old topics related to Socialism.

I was searching on Google for "Libertarian forum" and it brought me to the libertarian party-specific page here.

I did a Google search using "Abortion Debate" or "Abortion Discussion" or similar words.

I had been participating in an abortion debate forum until the site proved to be so technically unsound as to be unusable. Before that I had been posting at another debate site that also experienced overwhelming technical problems.

I used to debate on Yahoo, and was seeking more intelligent debate.

America's Debate was mentioned to me by a conservative friend. (He is also a member)

America's Debate?

Heck if I can remember! All I know is I was searching for adult (I bet you thought I was gonna say something else) political discussion.

I'm thinking that maybe a friend referred me, but don't hold me to that.

It's a bit roundabout, so perhaps not that compelling, but here goes: my brother told me a while back that Trader Joe's is owned by Asda. Then, via a Wal-Mart discussion on another forum, I had just found out that Wal-Mart owns Asda. So, fearing for the future of my beloved TJ's, I ran some Google searches. A search on trader joe's bought by asda turned up an archived Wal-Mart discussion from America's Debate. I was intrigued and impressed with the discussion and followed it back. I surfed the forum for a few days, and decided to join up today.

Oh, and just to clarify - it's Aldi that owns TJ's, not Asda. Still, muddling those two names led me here so...there's a bright side.

My street law teacher reccommended me to this site after I challenged him (and beat him ) in a Brown v. Education mock trial. Random thought:This site is kinda addictive.

Ysabella (two posts above) is my wife, and because she knows I love discussing politics, she pointed me to this site saying "you might want to check this out because it looks like a pretty good site."

I was getting tired of my other political boards because they were small and not very diverse in the discussions(same sex marriage was all anyone seemed to care to talk about). So I googled "America politics issues power board". The power board ending came from the fact that I love this format for a discussion board. After checking a few other sites that were either too liberal or too conservative, I found this. I really enjoy it here.

I Googled 'mek washington dc' to look for information for my forum and America's Debate was at the bottom of the first page. Reading the posts on MEK I decided to register here.

Court

I had saw a banner on Google's right-side advertisments and I clicked and poked around the boards. Then I said to myself, "What a perfectly wonderful place to rant about how Republicans are destroying our country". Then I registered.



All jokes aside, it's the first site I've seen with civilized, researched debate. So, I couldn't help myself.

My name is Scott Harris, and I am a Democratic strategist in Connecticut, USA, running a campaign for Curt Leng, a councilman, as he runs for re-election. Nice to meet you all.

Hmmm.... we haven't advertised on Google since December of 2002...

Maybe someone is advertising for us...!

Welcome, Scott. Feel free to introduce yourself in the Introductions forum.

Mike

i was looking why school uniforms are important then i found this great site on debating and it also gave me info about why uniforms are important since im doing a lincoln- douglas debate on friday.

I actually found this site while running a search engine for a research report on why electronics should/shouldnt be used in class. the debate for cell phones in schools came up and here i am! Kudos to AD for keeping me with my short attention span!

OOPS! i forgot to mention the seach engine i used! GOOGLE!

I found it by searching on Google for info about drilling for oil in the ANWR.

I found it by doing a Google search on "debate history filibuster of judges." It looked like a good, educational forum, so I thought I would join.

I found it on google when I looked up "Democrat Debate Forum". I had been on another forum, but I was kind of sick of a debating this anarchist all the time, and I felt I learned a bit more when I debated people who are more similar to me.

When I can actually get a back and forth debate going here (which has only happened once thus far), I tend to learn a bit more then I did at my old forum.

I was doing a Google search on "president rankings" and stumbled onto the site.

I Googled for "'purpose of debate' quote." You were 3rd from the top. Thanks for being here!

I googled for "American, patriocitc"

Don't remember what it was I googled, but I googled some information, likely for school and you guys were talking about it.

I think I searched in Yahoo for political debate and sure enough I found one and it is working greatly I might add.

I googled for "political debate," and shebam!

A member of this forum told me about it on another forum. He was new to the forum I was on, (not that I am a hack at that one, only 9 months now) and we were similar in political persuasion. I noted some of the background in a PM to him on ie the name calling and personal insults by the rightys to me explaining they were intellectually challenged, and upset that I would come to a conservative site. They have been trying to get me kicked out of that forum for a long time, but I do not name call or personally insult even though they do. Actually though they still daily call me names I think they have accepted that I am not going to get kicked out.

He recommended coming here because there are those who disagree that do not get into personal name calling insults and such. That there are far more intellectuals here. He continues to post on the other site also.

I forgot to take that left turn at Albuquerque. . . . .


Actually I got the link from a Google Ad on a Blog.

Do you happen to recall where you saw this ad? We don't place google ads so I am curious about it.

Believe it or not, I found this site mentioned on a Nazi forum that I frequent. (Not that I am Nazi of course, I just find it interesting!)

I was posting on Hannity's website and another poster there PM'd me about this site - more civil, arguments more cogent and thought-out, less screeching and general shrillness..

So I came over the check it out - he was right!

I was banned for a month from another site because I refused not to use the term, pro-abortion............and a friend told me about this site...........much better site I must say........

I came across America's Debate on Google, using the phrase Civil Debate.

From what I've seen so far, I think I will be here quite often.

With so much acrimony, hate, partisanship and venom on other boards, I was hoping that someone else felt the same way I did.
I want to be able to discuss an issue or engage in a debate "civilly".

Thanks to those who created this site.

Peace.

ConservPat recommended it.