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RE: Interesting Vote totals. - 11/14/2016 9:44:29 AM

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you cant think of course. it is around 66%

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RE: Interesting Vote totals. - 11/14/2016 9:47:09 AM

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Looks like the nytimes called it for cooper. looks like the nutsuckers are not accepting the election results.

http://abc11.com/politics/recount-of-90k-ballots-sought-in-nc-governors-race/1604209/

With it being this close, neither side was going to accept until every, single, last minute, written in vote was tallied. No matter the projected winner, either side was going to contest the results.

McCrory had two major things against him. One, he screwed up NC-DOT so bad by calling "State of Emergency" multiple times in 2016. He wasn't the only Gov to do this when certain storms hit, but his constituents weren't exactly happy because it was handled so horribly. (Let's be honest here. The state of North Carolina doesn't know whether to scratch it's watch or wind it's butt when snow falls from the sky. You can't blame the man that precipitation falls from above but you can blame him for not having a decent action plan.)

And then...

This was a man who signed HB2 into law in one of the most underhanded initiatives the state has ever seen. In a one day session, the State overrode a dozen city's local laws about LGBT rights. (Pretty much the same legislation that Gov Deals - GA - had on his desk and he vetoed.) Bad idea for a cash-poor state because certain organizations and individuals said they weren't coming to NC, anymore. It cost the state a good chunk of change and a lot of people blamed McCrory for it.

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RE: Interesting Vote totals. - 11/14/2016 9:54:10 AM

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you cant think of course. it is around 66%

Clearly you do not understand the parliamentary system.
It is as if the house was used as the House of Commons.
Instead of the House picking their speaker they chose the prime minister .
The only people who actually voted on the man who is prime minister are the people in his district, far less than 66% .
There you only get to vote on the person from their district.

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RE: Interesting Vote totals. - 11/14/2016 9:56:55 AM

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Page not Found. Link is dead.

The page is here. However, the source for the numbers is Twitter.

K.

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RE: Interesting Vote totals. - 11/14/2016 10:55:54 AM

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you cant think of course. it is around 66%

Clearly you do not understand the parliamentary system.
It is as if the house was used as the House of Commons.
Instead of the House picking their speaker they chose the prime minister .
The only people who actually voted on the man who is prime minister are the people in his district, far less than 66% .
There you only get to vote on the person from their district.

Oh, sorry welfare patient, the Queen chooses the Prime Minister, nobody votes for PM (a list may be forwarded to the Queen) but they aint any surprise or back bencher. The Queen invites the candidate to form a government, if they cannot do so in time, another choice is made, and so on.
Not only is their house of commons unlike our house, the full complement of the voter turnout votes for PM because the Queen chooses him, and they know that going in. If you didn't vote, you voted.

You don't know Parliament either, but I am not surprised about that.

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RE: Interesting Vote totals. - 11/14/2016 11:46:40 PM

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http://www.snopes.com/2016/11/13/who-won-the-popular-vote/

Good read but superfluous now.

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RE: Interesting Vote totals. - 11/14/2016 11:49:01 PM

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Oh, sorry welfare patient, the Queen chooses the Prime Minister, nobody votes for PM (a list may be forwarded to the Queen) but they aint any surprise or back bencher. The Queen invites the candidate to form a government, if they cannot do so in time, another choice is made, and so on.
Not only is their house of commons unlike our house, the full complement of the voter turnout votes for PM because the Queen chooses him, and they know that going in. If you didn't vote, you voted.

You don't know Parliament either, but I am not surprised about that.

I always feel like Americans don't understand that the Queen, and my country follows the British system. So instead of a Queen, we have an elected President. Who basically does everything Queen Elizabeth of UK does.

But there is no way, the Queen actually IS the one who personally chooses the PM. The leading party, comes up with their own PM and presents it to the Queen, and the Queen will just endorse the party choice.

So yes, in our system. The people vote for the party. The party themselves choose their own leader. But most of the time, you would already have a good idea IF you pick this party, who will be the leader. So in a way, you are already picking a specific person to be PM.

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RE: Interesting Vote totals. - 11/15/2016 12:24:06 AM

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Instead of the House picking their speaker they chose the prime minister .

Not quite right. The Commons does not chose the Prime Minister.
The Queen invites somebody to form a government, and if that person can command the support of the Commons then they become Prime Minister. In practice, this means that the leader of the party with the largest number of members in the Commons is the Prime Minister.

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