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is that a Trump campaign slogan? you're too much
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is that a Trump campaign slogan? you're too much
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so because he happends to be a woman you think im sexist ffs lol thats so naive way of looking at it. word hypocrite comes into me mind.Funny that when you repost a lot of nonsense from one side
You're whole posting history in this thread suggests a bizarre fixation on hating one woman.
I haven't really seen any disgust or hate for the other side despite plenty of reasons
if she would be a man and would have the same kind of track record i would be just as much against him as im against her. word.
Yeah Ronald Reagan was governor of California for 8 years before becoming president.
This article has a good summary
Here's a look at how a state can go from red to blue in five simple steps:
STEP 1: Start with a state that's not that red to begin with.
Dan Schnur, head of the Jesse M. Unruh Institute of Politics at the University of Southern California, says that two or three decades ago, California was more of a centrist state. Voters "tended to be more conservative on issues relating to the economy and jobs and taxes, and they tended to be more ... liberal on health care and education, environmental protection and other cultural and social issues." (Incidentally, that happens to be a pretty good description of current Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown.)
STEP 2: Alienate the fastest-growing demographic group in the state.
In 1994, Republican Gov. Pete Wilson hitched his bid for re-election to the campaign for Proposition 187 — a ballot measure aimed at denying public services to undocumented immigrants. Wilson and 187 won handily, but there was a backlash, says Raphael Sonenshein, head of the Pat Brown Institute of Public Affairs at California State University, Los Angeles. "In the decade of the 1990s, a million new Latino voters came to the rolls. People who weren't citizens tried to become citizens; those who were citizens registered to vote." As a result, Latinos now make up more than a fifth of the California electorate — more than double their percentage in 1990. (And most of Proposition 187 was ruled unconstitutional.)
STEP 3: Take positions out of sync with the voters.
California voters have long been kind of "live and let live" on social issues and passionate about the environment. So when California Republicans come out against gay marriage or abortion rights or efforts to curb global warming, women and younger voters just tune them out. And Asian-Americans, who frequently register as independents, are also voting in overwhelming numbers for Democrats. "The danger for Republicans," says Democratic consultant Bill Carrick, "is people start casting votes for one party and they do it in a couple of elections, it becomes a permanent political identity."
STEP 4: Win the governor's office! Then, get nothing out of it.
In 2003, Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger booted Democratic Gov. Gray Davis out of office in a historic recall election. By his second term, he was making appeals for "post-partisanship." No one except theGovernator seemed to know what that meant, but it was an indication that he didn't have much interest in party-building. "They had a guy who ended up being a party of one," Carrick says. James Brulte, a former Republican leader in the state Senate and current head of the California GOP, says that when Schwarzenegger ran for re-election, "the party operation was not designed to help anybody other than Gov. Schwarzenegger."
STEP 5: Get overshadowed by the national party.
Brulte wants to rebuild the California Republican Party by bringing a message of smaller government, lower taxes and more freedom to minority communities that Republicans have neglected. He ignores divisive social issues. But "Californians all have TV sets, all have radios," says Carrick, the Democratic consultant. And, he says, what the Republicans are saying in Washington and around the country on those issues is "totally out of sync with California."
Care to walk me through how an election in a country with around 125 million votes in multiple states with monitoring by both parties will be rigged?
Whistlin' Dixie
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Wasn't Florida dicey when bush beat gore? Something to do with digital voting & blacks not getting their papers or summit?
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Here's one way... not for Clinton though
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/06/27/ratfcked-the-influence-of-redistricting
They had a badly designed paper ballot whose indentations didn't punch out properly leading to the infamous "hanging chads".
But that wasn't vote rigging, just incompetence.
Redistricting definitely has a huge impact on elections other than president, some of the maps created would be funny in their daftness if it wasn't for how they create uncompetitive areas (which both sides politicians have exploited).
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Ah, right. Ta for putting me straight.
'Hanging Chads'? Is that what they call them over there?
Soon be over, not a good outcome really who ever wins Trump a loose cannon or a tarnished Clinton .
Think it might hinge on voters who don't openly support Trump voting for him on the quite, bit like brexit over here.
Think it might hinge on voters who don't openly support Trump voting for him on the quite, bit like brexit over here.
There is a wide range of chadsAh, right. Ta for putting me straight.
'Hanging Chads'? Is that what they call them over there?
When a chad is not fully detached, it is described by various terms corresponding to the level of modification from the unpunched state. The distinctions are of importance in counting cards used in voting. The following terms generally apply when describing a four-cornered chad:[8]
- Hanging chads are attached to the ballot at only one corner.
- Swinging chads are attached to the ballot at two corners.
- Tri-chads are attached to the ballot at three corners.
- Pregnant or dimpled chads are attached to the ballot at all four corners, but bear an indentation indicating the voter may have intended to mark the ballot. (Sometimes "pregnant" is used to indicate a greater mark than "dimpled".)
I never mentioned sexism Finn. I'd use other posts of yours if I wanted to talk about that
You didn't actually respond to what I said.
The outrage wouldn't have to be manufactured by now, though. Operant conditioning has made it self generating.
That's a big reason we live in such special times. I'll only have to live with the next twenty or thirty years of it at most...
Always look on the bright side of life. (I get this way when I consider Clinton's inevitability and what lies ahead.)
There is a wide range of chads
When a chad is not fully detached, it is described by various terms corresponding to the level of modification from the unpunched state. The distinctions are of importance in counting cards used in voting. The following terms generally apply when describing a four-cornered chad:[8]
- Hanging chads are attached to the ballot at only one corner.
- Swinging chads are attached to the ballot at two corners.
- Tri-chads are attached to the ballot at three corners.
- Pregnant or dimpled chads are attached to the ballot at all four corners, but bear an indentation indicating the voter may have intended to mark the ballot. (Sometimes "pregnant" is used to indicate a greater mark than "dimpled".)
I had a group of mates that worked as a band named the "Swinging Chads" back in that time. Good for them.
Ah, the butterfly ballot. Life was much simpler then.
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