GOP post mortem

[Elixir]

I wonder how much of the vote was anti-Trump rather than pro-Democrat?
Your system does not allow for disaffected voters to protest outside the duopoly.

Neither does ours, mate.

I’m not sure what is escaping Tigers! here. .
He is apparently laboring under some misconception that people are only allowed to vote for two choices that have already been made for them.
This is flatly, uncategorically, entirely
FALSE.
His conviction to the contrary, and vehemence that it must be as he misconstrues it, has to speak to some state of Aussie propaganda, poor education or other information suppressing factor.

 

[Toni]

I wonder how much of the vote was anti-Trump rather than pro-Democrat?
Your system does not allow for disaffected voters to protest outside the duopoly.

Neither does ours, mate.

I’m not sure what is escaping Tigers! here. .
He is apparently laboring under some misconception that people are only allowed to vote for two choices that have already been made for them.
This is flatly, uncategorically, entirely
FALSE.
His conviction to the contrary, and vehemence that it must be as he misconstrues it, has to speak to some state of Aussie propaganda, poor education or other information suppressing factor.

Willful ignorance is a possibility.

It is unusual but third party candidates are sometimes elected. The example that always leaps to mind for me is Jesse Ventura, former pro wrestler, who was elected as Governor of Minnesota.

Most states allow write in candidates although the chance of most writing to win is usually quite small.

 

[Elixir]

Most states allow write in candidates although the chance of most writing to win is usually quite small.

… but infinitely greater than zero chance.
The chance that any random individual will win a State-wide or National office, is minuscule. And that is in NO WAY reflective of bias, lack of freedom of choice or any of the other characteristics Tigers! imagines to limit Americans’ choices.

 

[Elixir]

Yes. You can always write in your vote. For example, Lisa Murkowski won back her seat after losing in the Republican primary and not being the “official” Republican candidate on the ballot.

But her name was on the ballot paper was it not?

No. She was a write in candidate.

At this point I gotta wonder why this info isn’t readily available to Aussies. They have internet access, obviously. There are burgeoning online sources eager to provide this kind of info to honest inquiry.
Where is the disconnect? How did T end up with such dismal misunderstanding?

 

[bilby]

At this point I gotta wonder why this info isn’t readily available to Aussies.

Tigers is a Victorian, or to put it another way, he is living in the nineteenth century.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I wonder how much of the vote was anti-Trump rather than pro-Democrat?
Your system does not allow for disaffected voters to protest outside the duopoly.

Neither does ours, mate.

I’m not sure what is escaping Tigers! here. .
He is apparently laboring under some misconception that people are only allowed to vote for two choices that have already been made for them.
This is flatly, uncategorically, entirely
FALSE.
His conviction to the contrary, and vehemence that it must be as he misconstrues it, has to speak to some state of Aussie propaganda, poor education or other information suppressing factor.

Willful ignorance is a possibility.

It is unusual but third party candidates are sometimes elected. The example that always leaps to mind for me is Jesse Ventura, former pro wrestler, who was elected as Governor of Minnesota.

I misread your post and looked this up. I did not know that Norm Coleman, who'd run against Wellstone who'd die and the right-wing would politicize Wellstone's funeral, lost to Ventura.

 

[Tigers!]

Yes. You can always write in your vote. For example, Lisa Murkowski won back her seat after losing in the Republican primary and not being the “official” Republican candidate on the ballot.

But her name was on the ballot paper was it not?

No. She was a write in candidate.

Having that ability to have a "write-in" candidate is an interesting ideal. I did not realise that facility existed.

I can think of times I have voted in Australia when that ability would have been so good. The candidate 'Mum' would win a lot of votes.

 

[Tigers!]

When will the rioting in the streets begin now that the Republicans lost? I am looking forward to those shots.

 

[Tigers!]

Your system does not allow for disaffected voters to protest outside the duopoly.

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You approve of that sort of protest? I presume not.

 

[jonatha]

When will the rioting in the streets begin now that the Republicans lost? I am looking forward to those shots.

Start popping your popcorn on January 3rd

 

[Tigers!]

When will the rioting in the streets begin now that the Republicans lost? I am looking forward to those shots.

Start popping your popcorn on January 3rd

It is in my calendar.

 

[Don2 (Don1 Revised)]

Your system does not allow for disaffected voters to protest outside the duopoly.

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You approve of that sort of protest? I presume not.

No, but it was allowed.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

When will the rioting in the streets begin now that the Republicans lost? I am looking forward to those shots.

You'd need to ask the guy that organized the last DC riot.

 

[ZiprHead]

When will the rioting in the streets begin now that the Republicans lost? I am looking forward to those shots.

Start popping your popcorn on January 3rd

Yup. Already been suggesteded by Jake Lang.

 

[Elixir]

I’m fairly confident now, that January will be a very bad month for the trumpsuckers in Congress, and a fairly miserable one for Trump as well. The next couple of years will probably see lots of innovation in the massive tacky monuments industry, and little attention of the executive branch will be allocated to new outrage production.

We’ll have to wait and see if the pedo traitors were able to burn the Epstein evidence … probably so, being a bipartisan point of exposure. Pity.