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Elections in Virginia (or how Dems cheat)

Started by Siege, November 07, 2013, 06:07:37 PM

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Admiral Yi

#15
November 07, 2013, 08:25:02 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on November 07, 2013, 08:23:32 PM
Dude's a freelancer.

Anyway, Siege's sour grapes are just like the Democrats whining about Nader in 2000. People are well aware that their 3rd party vote isn't going to help decide the outcome. They chose not to vote for the Republican candidate.

I think they're exactly like Dems whining about Republican money backing the black retard.

Razgovory

#16
November 07, 2013, 08:26:45 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on November 07, 2013, 08:06:43 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on November 07, 2013, 07:42:12 PM
So now running alternate candidates is "cheating"?  :lol:

It's comparable to Republicans giving money to that retarded black Democratic candidate in Georgia.  It may not be illegal, but it's not really quite cricket either.

Or attempting voter suppression through voter ID laws.
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Admiral Yi

#17
November 07, 2013, 08:30:08 PM
Right.  Or creating 18 million new Democratic voters through an amnesty.

Razgovory

#18
November 07, 2013, 08:33:18 PM
18 million!   :lol:   You guys always crack me up.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

jimmy olsen

#19
November 07, 2013, 08:33:53 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on November 07, 2013, 08:23:32 PM
Dude's a freelancer.

Anyway, Siege's sour grapes are just like the Democrats whining about Nader in 2000. People are well aware that their 3rd party vote isn't going to help decide the outcome. They chose not to vote for the Republican candidate.
It can certainly help decide the outcome if in the absence of such a candidate they would have voted for one of the two main parties.
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CountDeMoney

#21
November 07, 2013, 08:36:59 PM
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on November 07, 2013, 08:23:32 PM
Dude's a freelancer.

"TheBlaze" sounds like a newsletter for drag queens.

Habbaku

#22
November 07, 2013, 08:40:51 PM
Quote from: Siege on November 07, 2013, 06:07:37 PM
In Virginia the Dems won by 3 percent, and this was because they cheated by putting a Libertarian candidate on the ballot to split the conservative vote

:lol:  Ban third parties!
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garbon

#23
November 07, 2013, 08:41:38 PM
I'd love to be blazing right now. Sigh, sickening eyes.
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#24
November 07, 2013, 09:36:18 PM
And we are surprised?  But don't just assume everybody who votes Libertarian would be voting Republican.  Further 3% seems like a pretty big margin to blame on them.
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Razgovory

#25
November 07, 2013, 09:51:47 PM
7% is pretty high for a third party, I suspect a lot of it is protest vote.  The recent government shutdown almost certainly hurt people in Northern Virginia, and probably created ill will toward Republicans in general.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Viking

#26
November 07, 2013, 10:12:58 PM
In a thread about cheating at politics I'm amazed nobody brought up Gerrymandering the House.

Winning the popular vote by 2 points and losing the house by 7.5 points? That's almost 10% of election stealing. And thats not all the gerrymandering, thats republican gerrmandering minus democratic gerrymandering.
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Valmy

#27
November 07, 2013, 10:14:38 PM
Gerrymandering is a storied traditional American way of undermining Democracy so does not really count.
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Zmiinyi defenders: "Russian warship, go fuck yourself."

derspiess

#28
November 07, 2013, 10:15:35 PM
:lol:  Don't ever change, Viking.
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CountDeMoney

#29
November 07, 2013, 10:23:09 PM
Quote from: derspiess on November 07, 2013, 10:15:35 PM
:lol:  Don't ever change, Viking.

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