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truckinslave -> US elections for $1,000.00 please Alec (9/16/2010 6:37:12 AM)

And the answer is.... 1926.

When is the last time more Republicans than Democrats voted in the primaries leading up to an off-year election?


No shit. 1926. When the primaries finally, mercifully, end Saturday some 4,500,000 more Rs than Ds will have voted for the first time in almost a century. Still think O'Donnell is unelectable? Angle??

This is one of those "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog" things.



mnottertail -> RE: US elections for $1,000.00 please Alec (9/16/2010 6:38:54 AM)

What is Hoover?



truckinslave -> RE: US elections for $1,000.00 please Alec (9/16/2010 7:13:32 AM)

You're tres confused.

You wanted the "Household appliances for $200.00" thread.



tazzygirl -> RE: US elections for $1,000.00 please Alec (9/16/2010 7:17:35 AM)


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ORIGINAL: truckinslave

And the answer is.... 1926.

When is the last time more Republicans than Democrats voted in the primaries leading up to an off-year election?


No shit. 1926. When the primaries finally, mercifully, end Saturday some 4,500,000 more Rs than Ds will have voted for the first time in almost a century. Still think O'Donnell is unelectable? Angle??

This is one of those "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog" things.


4.5 million.. nationally or in a single state? If a state, which state?



mnottertail -> RE: US elections for $1,000.00 please Alec (9/16/2010 7:20:18 AM)

nope, you are tres in the wrong catagory.

let me rephrase.

Who was Herbert Hoover, who followed an equally ineffective Coolidge who presided over the great depression, after Republican presidents and policies since 1901?  and why would they do that?



truckinslave -> RE: US elections for $1,000.00 please Alec (9/16/2010 7:22:04 AM)

Primaries. Plural. Nationally.



tazzygirl -> RE: US elections for $1,000.00 please Alec (9/16/2010 7:25:39 AM)

Just out of curiosity, how many are running unopposed in the primaries?



rulemylife -> RE: US elections for $1,000.00 please Alec (9/16/2010 7:28:29 AM)

quote:

ORIGINAL: truckinslave

And the answer is.... 1926.

When is the last time more Republicans than Democrats voted in the primaries leading up to an off-year election?


No shit. 1926. When the primaries finally, mercifully, end Saturday some 4,500,000 more Rs than Ds will have voted for the first time in almost a century. Still think O'Donnell is unelectable? Angle??

This is one of those "It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog" things.


Would you care to offer some citations and sources for these fascinating bits of information?



truckinslave -> RE: US elections for $1,000.00 please Alec (9/16/2010 7:29:05 AM)

No idea, TG. I'm repeating Rove from his appearance last night on Gretas show.



truckinslave -> RE: US elections for $1,000.00 please Alec (9/16/2010 7:30:33 AM)

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Would you care to offer some citations and sources for these fascinating bits of information?


Karl Rove, On The Record, 9/15, 2010.



tazzygirl -> RE: US elections for $1,000.00 please Alec (9/16/2010 7:30:44 AM)

Thats part of the hype. If a canidate is running unopposed, there wont be a huge turn out of that party. Make sense?



truckinslave -> RE: US elections for $1,000.00 please Alec (9/16/2010 7:32:25 AM)

You have any concrete reason to blieve that the incidence of unopposed candidates for one party or the other is higher or lower than at any time since 1926?



tazzygirl -> RE: US elections for $1,000.00 please Alec (9/16/2010 7:34:53 AM)

None at all. The part of your OP i am addressing is this.......

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When the primaries finally, mercifully, end Saturday some 4,500,000 more Rs than Ds will have voted for the first time in almost a century.


In order for that statement to make sense, one must know how many on both sides ran without an opponent.



rulemylife -> RE: US elections for $1,000.00 please Alec (9/16/2010 7:40:04 AM)

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ORIGINAL: truckinslave

quote:

Would you care to offer some citations and sources for these fascinating bits of information?


Karl Rove, On The Record, 9/15, 2010.


First, in sourcing your facts it is incumbent on you to provide quotes, citations, valid links, etc..

But I did copy and paste your purported source exactly as you wrote it.

Nothing there.

Care to try again?



truckinslave -> RE: US elections for $1,000.00 please Alec (9/16/2010 7:41:28 AM)

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In order for that statement to make sense, one must know how many on both sides ran without an opponent.


I don't see any reason to believe that is abnormal as compared to other offyear elections.

Here's what makes sense: the enthusiasm gap. 0bama0 has suppressed his entire party.



truckinslave -> RE: US elections for $1,000.00 please Alec (9/16/2010 7:43:05 AM)

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First, in sourcing your facts it is incumbent on you to provide quotes, citations, valid links, etc..


yawn. Go watch it. Or not. Find a source that disputes what I said. Or not.
Telling me what/how to post just isn't going to be fruitful.



TheHeretic -> RE: US elections for $1,000.00 please Alec (9/16/2010 7:43:15 AM)


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ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

Just out of curiosity, how many are running unopposed in the primaries?



Shit, Tazzy, how many incumbents are running unopposed in the general? Aren't gerrymandered "safe" seats fun?



tazzygirl -> RE: US elections for $1,000.00 please Alec (9/16/2010 7:44:15 AM)

Thats what you are interested in. When i hear a claim that primary turn outs are low, i want to know the why behind it. Is it that Dems are disenfranchised? Are GOP voters ambivelent? Does either party have unopposed canidates that would, understandbly, produce a lower primary voter turn out?

You can assume anything you want. But, if you cannot answer the questions, then you really dont know.



tazzygirl -> RE: US elections for $1,000.00 please Alec (9/16/2010 7:45:33 AM)


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ORIGINAL: TheHeretic


quote:

ORIGINAL: tazzygirl

Just out of curiosity, how many are running unopposed in the primaries?



Shit, Tazzy, how many incumbents are running unopposed in the general? Aren't gerrymandered "safe" seats fun?


I dont know Rich. But that wasnt his supposition in his OP, which is what i am addressing.



truckinslave -> RE: US elections for $1,000.00 please Alec (9/16/2010 7:47:40 AM)

You could also ask about Dim voter suppression due to the weather, horoscopes, and the cost of tea in China.
I wouldn't give those questions much relevance either.



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