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President Biden: The NEW one and only politics thread

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Moderator1, Jan 20, 2021.

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  1. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    I have no doubt Biden would have beaten Trump in '16. Barack would have too if not for term limits.
     
    garrow, Mar 1, 2024
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  2. jr/shotglass

    jr/shotglass Well-Known Member

    That's so much more sensible than Pennsylvania.

    Because if you can't vote in a primary as an independent, it strikes me that the only advantage of registering independent is to be able to say, "Hey, I'm a registered independent."
     
    jr/shotglass, Mar 1, 2024
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  3. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    I wish Palm Beach County hadn't used a butterfly ballot in 2000.
     
    Driftwood, Mar 1, 2024
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  4. The Big Ragu

    The Big Ragu Moderator Staff Member

    Or maybe you have no desire to vote in either of the primaries of two parties and their candidates that you want nothing to do with 95 percent of the time, simply because they are the only two choices our process is giving people at the moment.

    I always saw not putting the letter in front of my name as the only thing I could do to actually express my discontent. I wasn't going to support something I thought was corrupt.

    If all the people making a pragmatic choice the way you are suggesting did that, I wonder if we'd be able to get rid of the parties for lack of support. I mean, the number of "independents" has soared in recent years. It's roughly 50 percent independent, 25 percent Republican, 25 percent Democrat at the moment. What if it was 15 percent Republican, 15 percent Democrat? At some point, rival movements could break their monopoly.
     
    The Big Ragu, Mar 1, 2024
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  5. Michael_ Gee

    Michael_ Gee Well-Known Member

    I worked with a guy at the Herald. He and his wife lived in New Hampshire and were registered as independent. He said it had one huge drawback every four years before the New Hampshire primary. "We get all the calls and direct mail solicitations from all the candidates of both parties," he complained after the 1988 primary.
     
    Michael_ Gee, Mar 1, 2024
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  6. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    Local elections should be non-partisan.
    School board, sheriff, road superintendent, county mayor, county clerk, register of deeds, etc. should have nothing to do with political parties or politics at all.
    County commission, I don't care. They are all morons, anyway. Anyone smart enough to be a county commissioner is smart enough not to be a county commissioner.
     
    Driftwood, Mar 1, 2024
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  7. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    garrow, Mar 1, 2024
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  8. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    Heh. Well, I stand corrected. I thought that the lege had passed that.

    Cool, I don't have to fool with it then.
     
    Neutral Corner, Mar 1, 2024
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  9. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    In Alabama, all of those guys run on being opposed to the Liberal Democrat's Godless Socialist Agenda.
     
    Neutral Corner, Mar 1, 2024
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  10. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    Here, too.
     
    Driftwood, Mar 1, 2024
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  11. Driftwood

    Driftwood Well-Known Member

    JFC

    USA Today story. If the guy was goofing, I don't think I'd do it at the combine where teams evaluate you not only physically but mentally.

    The Texas Tech defensive back Tyler Owens told media members on Thursday that he doesn't believe in space. ... he actually doesn't think planets and stars and galaxies exist.
    "I don't believe in space," Owens said in a video posted on X by Bleacher Report's Brent Sobleski. "I'm real religious, so I think we're alone right now. I don't think there's other planets and other stuff like that."
    The NFL hopeful said going down the black hole of theories from the likes of NBA All-Star Kyrie Irving and multiplatinum rapper B.o.B that the earth is flat had him rethink what he'd been taught.
     
    Driftwood, Mar 1, 2024
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  12. Neutral Corner

    Neutral Corner Well-Known Member

    I'd say he was a Space Cadet but...
     
    Neutral Corner, Mar 1, 2024
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