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Crowsbeak posted:Jefferson County is where we should celebrate, there is no place where the Neoliberals have been trying to gently caress up the nation more then in education and to see all three of their thugs thrown out of office is a real victory. I live next door in Douglas and am not limited to only one celebration so I can celebrate both. Those three republicans were trying to do far worse. The school board debate debate was jaw dropping. From "I support the freedom of a teacher to be paid based on their merit" to the brain damaged vet whose answers kept turning to talking about how his military experience meant he knew what to do about "security in our schools" .... as if school violence in Douglas was an actual problem that needed money taken away from education to deal with.
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FAUXTON posted:When they start apportioning electoral votes by district results rather than state results. Take Pennsylvania for instance. It's basically one decent city, one "actually West Virginia but close enough" city, and a bunch of inbred fucks who talk like boomhauer and say yinz in between the cities. Population-wise the majority of voters in the state are going to be in those cities, and a huge majority of those city-dwellers are not down with the GOP. Moreso in the decent city than the 'burgh, but the stats legislature can draw electoral districts so that they concentrate as much of the civilized vote into as few districts as possible, while slathering the mumbling chickenfucker hill people vote as thinly as possible across all districts while still maintaining majorities. How can you complain about rural Pennsylvanians like this when there are actual savages in Chicago who literally shoot each other to death every weekend, and their votes are still "worth" the same. At least people in Pennsyltucky don't continually vote for people who will funnel your tax dollars into these cesspools of slovenly wastes of flesh (like cesspool dwellers in Chicago for instance). (USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)
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Nov 4, 2015 16:02
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Mr Hootington posted:The amount of rending of clothes and gnashing of teeth over Kentucky makes me think a R presidency and subsequent disaster would be worth the month long meltdown. Yes the prospect of the poor suffering is hi-larious
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Nov 4, 2015 16:05
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Joementum posted:Things that are not going to happen in American politics: EV-by-district becoming widespread, abolishing the EC, a deadlocked convention, an Article V convention, one of the two parties splintering, Donald Trump winning a nomination. My dream of a brokered GOP convention with Donald Trump screaming like a drunken carnival barker about how he's getting the shaft and going third party will burn bright forever.  Milk Malk posted:How can you complain about rural Pennsylvanians like this when there are actual savages in Chicago who literally shoot each other to death every weekend, and their votes are still "worth" the same. At least people in Pennsyltucky don't continually vote for people who will funnel your tax dollars into these cesspools of slovenly wastes of flesh (like cesspool dwellers in Chicago for instance). But enough about Winnetka... Zeroisanumber fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Nov 4, 2015 |
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Nov 4, 2015 16:08
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Shageletic posted:Yes the prospect of the poor suffering is hi-larious But the poor are voting them in  Edit: you know what would fix this? Not allowing people who do not live in an enlightened, golden metropolis to vote. Your city must have 200,000 total citizens. Then the cities leadership votes who goes into power! Mr Hootington fucked around with this message at 16:15 on Nov 4, 2015 |
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Nov 4, 2015 16:10
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DOOP posted:That post reads less like "gently caress the poor" and more like "gently caress pennsyltuckians" No one buys this any more than when conservatives talk about 'urban culture'. If you really looked at that post and felt that way you should reevaluate your own views on people in general.
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Nov 4, 2015 16:13
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McAlister posted:I live next door in Douglas and am not limited to only one celebration so I can celebrate both. I think it should be celebrated because it wasn't just liberals voting to recall those three assholes, it ws conservatives. I t can mean that there can be efforts now to take back other schoolboards and fight against the attempt to destroy education.
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Nov 4, 2015 16:14
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Milk Malk posted:How can you complain about rural Pennsylvanians like this when there are actual savages in Chicago who literally shoot each other to death every weekend, and their votes are still "worth" the same. At least people in Pennsyltucky don't continually vote for people who will funnel your tax dollars into these cesspools of slovenly wastes of flesh (like cesspool dwellers in Chicago for instance). Fauxton's post was pretty bad, but there is no reason to go all stormfront here.
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SLOSifl posted:If there's not some restriction on minimum vote count or percentage, which there probably is, then that's why your neighbor is both the mayor and your neighbor. Where would I find this information? I've looked at the election code for my state and all it talks about is how to vote, what the election officers are supposed to do and how the votes will be counted. I sent an email to my local board of elections but, I'm not sure where else to look for something like this.
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Nov 4, 2015 16:22
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Milk Malk posted:How can you complain about rural Pennsylvanians like this when there are actual savages in Chicago who literally shoot each other to death every weekend, and their votes are still "worth" the same. At least people in Pennsyltucky don't continually vote for people who will funnel your tax dollars into these cesspools of slovenly wastes of flesh (like cesspool dwellers in Chicago for instance). alright, zimmerman put the gun down
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Milk Malk posted:How can you complain about rural Pennsylvanians like this when there are actual savages in Chicago who literally shoot each other to death every weekend, and their votes are still "worth" the same. At least people in Pennsyltucky don't continually vote for people who will funnel your tax dollars into these cesspools of slovenly wastes of flesh (like cesspool dwellers in Chicago for instance). 
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Mr Hootington posted:But the poor are voting them in With a 30% turnout, it sure wasn't the poor that was voting here.
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30% turnout, but remember it's totes a referendum on Obumma
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Nov 4, 2015 16:26
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wilderthanmild posted:Fauxton's post was pretty bad, but there is no reason to go all stormfront here. So suddenly since you assume I'm talking about a nonwhite racial group, you're ready to make the jump from "pretty bad" to "neo-nazi"? I've gotta admit, that smarts a little bit. My point is valid. If there are uncivilized, inbred fucks with stupid dialects everywhere, why be so angry with the ones who don't want your tax dollars?
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Nov 4, 2015 16:28
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:30% turnout, but remember it's totes a referendum on Obumma When we lose, the silent majority just didn't come out. When we win by 1% with 25% turnout we have a mandate to enact everything we want!!
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Nov 4, 2015 16:29
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blue squares posted:What is it like to live in a state that isn't run by idiots? Lol, that's just Seattle, which isn't necessarily run by idiots, but folks like Amazon and Boeing are always trying to import whatever flavor of FYGM libertarianism into an otherwise hippie enclave. The state itself... well, let's just say that it is being run more competently than Kansas or Maine, but is plenty capable of making bad and terrible voting decisions.
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:30% turnout, but remember it's totes a referendum on Obumma Anyone got an article getting deep into the exit numbers? It has to be the same sort of exurb middle class wave that buoys Republicans in every off-election, right?
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Nov 4, 2015 16:29
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Shageletic posted:Anyone got an article getting deep into the exit numbers? It has to be the same sort of exurb middle class wave that buoys Republicans in every off-election, right? I haven't looked for it, but I would generally think yes.
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Nov 4, 2015 16:30
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Joementum posted:Things that are not going to happen in American politics: EV-by-district becoming widespread, abolishing the EC, a deadlocked convention, an Article V convention, one of the two parties splintering, Donald Trump winning a nomination. While I agree we're vanishingly unlikely to see it in our lifetimes, a major party splintering has at least happened before in American history, unlike everything else you mention.
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Nov 4, 2015 16:31
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In my experience off-off-year gubernatorial elections are dominated by two demographics: "nobody" and "old people". Admittedly anecdotal, but I would not be shocked if it was the case statistically too.
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Nov 4, 2015 16:32
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Milk Malk posted:So suddenly since you assume I'm talking about a nonwhite racial group, you're ready to make the jump from "pretty bad" to "neo-nazi"? I've gotta admit, that smarts a little bit.
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Milk Malk posted:So suddenly since you assume I'm talking about a nonwhite racial group, you're ready to make the jump from "pretty bad" to "neo-nazi"? I've gotta admit, that smarts a little bit. Yikes.
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Maarek posted:In my experience off-off-year gubernatorial elections are dominated by two demographics: "nobody" and "old people". Admittedly anecdotal, but I would not be shocked if it was the case statistically too. On the other hand, KY gov turnout this year was 70,000 fewer voters than in the last competitive gov election (2007), and 110,000 fewer than the one before that. Some of it does come down to bad campaigning/GOTV efforts on the part of this year's Democrats. PupsOfWar fucked around with this message at 16:45 on Nov 4, 2015 |
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It doesn't help that most people probably thought "election?, you mean next year, the trump thing...I thought it was 2016 or is that the olympics". The one with that black doctor guy...Ben Ghazi or whatevs.
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Time to throw some logs onto the eternal Hillary vs. Bernie flamewar: In addition to previous claims that he's sexist, Hillary is now insinuating that Bernie is racist.
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Nov 4, 2015 16:46
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FAUXTON posted:When they start apportioning electoral votes by district results rather than state results. Take Pennsylvania for instance. It's basically one decent city, one "actually West Virginia but close enough" city, and a bunch of inbred fucks who talk like boomhauer and say yinz in between the cities. Population-wise the majority of voters in the state are going to be in those cities, and a huge majority of those city-dwellers are not down with the GOP. Moreso in the decent city than the 'burgh, but the stats legislature can draw electoral districts so that they concentrate as much of the civilized vote into as few districts as possible, while slathering the mumbling chickenfucker hill people vote as thinly as possible across all districts while still maintaining majorities. We talk like Boomhauser and say Yinz in the city as well. (Also the state party isn't particularly eager to remove the prestige and power of being a semi -swing state, just for the benefit of some dick from Texas/Florida with the added risk of drawing Dem GOTV efforts to Erie/Harrisburg. No supreme court necessary)
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Time to throw some logs onto the eternal Hillary vs. Bernie flamewar: In addition to previous claims that he's sexist, Hillary is now insinuating that Bernie is racist. Hillary is so crazy good at throwing shade
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Time to throw some logs onto the eternal Hillary vs. Bernie flamewar: In addition to previous claims that he's sexist, Hillary is now insinuating that Bernie is racist. Maybe I'm not very knowledgeable on political candidate poo poo-slinging, but this all seems like some pretty weak stuff no matter which way you spin it. Or maybe Trump is starting to infect my brain.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Time to throw some logs onto the eternal Hillary vs. Bernie flamewar: In addition to previous claims that he's sexist, Hillary is now insinuating that Bernie is racist. Seems like overkill for a campaign winning by double digits, yeesh. Is Sanders sticking to his ban on negativity or has he got third parties attacking Clinton?
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Nov 4, 2015 16:53
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Jonesy posted:Seems like overkill for a campaign winning by double digits, yeesh. Is Sanders sticking to his ban on negativity or has he got third parties attacking Clinton? The worst he's done so far is imply that Clinton's not liberal enough.
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I am so glad that Ohio Issue 3 didn't pass. Talk about a poisoned chalice. And Issue 1 passed, whooo! That said, what's the problem with Issue 2? Seemed like bog-standard antimonopoly stuff, albeit aimed at stopping another Issue 3 from arising.
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Milk Malk posted:So suddenly since you assume I'm talking about a nonwhite racial group, you're ready to make the jump from "pretty bad" to "neo-nazi"? I've gotta admit, that smarts a little bit. Ah yes, the "Chicago" angle, talking point straight from Breitbart. Have you ever heard of a phrase called "per capita murder rate", dipshit? Look it up. Then get back to us as to why you think Chicago is the example you think is most resonant.
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Nov 4, 2015 17:01
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Joementum posted:Things that are not going to happen in American politics: EV-by-district becoming widespread, abolishing the EC, a deadlocked convention, an Article V convention, one of the two parties splintering, Donald Trump winning a nomination. Is there a difference between a "deadlocked" convention and a "brokered" convention? It's my understanding that a deadlocked convention can't happen because there are enough votes that can be decided going into it that a candidate would bubble-up for better or worse.
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Kulkasha posted:I am so glad that Ohio Issue 3 didn't pass. Talk about a poisoned chalice. My (limited) understanding is that its verbiage is just vague enough that it can also be used to gently caress over nice things like single payer Healthcare in the slim chance that somebody gets weird socialist ideas.
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Does anybody have a a good breakdown or summary of the Hillary's 11 hour question session in front of the Benghazi committee? The basic charge I see is that the State Department was responsible for security for diplomatic personnel, and that inadequate security was provided in Benghazi, with no Quick Reaction Force in place in case the ambassador. I don't know if it was the Secretary of State's responsibility or fault that there wasn't better security, but I'm sure the question got asked at some point and I'm looking for Hillary's answer.
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Armyman25 posted:Does anybody have a a good breakdown or summary of the Hillary's 11 hour question session in front of the Benghazi committee? The narrative they are trying to push is that Hillary is a puppet of Syd Blumenthal and are trying to paint her as a cronyist who is more interested in doing her friends' and donors' bidding than protecting the peoples' servants. The summary is that Hillary sat there and patiently answered questions from increasingly hysterical congresspersons and they looked really dumb and bad. Hillary looked really competent and calm in the face of harsh questions.
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ComradeCosmobot posted:Time to throw some logs onto the eternal Hillary vs. Bernie flamewar: In addition to previous claims that he's sexist, Hillary is now insinuating that Bernie is racist. She could also be talking about, you know, Republicans. But, that would be a lot of mental twisting for a Slate writer.
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Armyman25 posted:Does anybody have a a good breakdown or summary of the Hillary's 11 hour question session in front of the Benghazi committee? I don't think the State department could do much of anything with congressional approval which they did not give. The response team was DoD I think as well.
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blue squares posted:What is it like to live in a state that isn't run by idiots? Minnesota's pretty nice and our major metro area is consistently rated one of the most livable in the country. The worst things are long winters, mediocre weed, and stupid blue laws.
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BI NOW GAY LATER posted:She could also be talking about, you know, Republicans. She could be, she clearly isn't, but it could happen!
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