Given the choice between the least worst candidate – in this case, anyone on earth vs. Trump – the clear choice is to vote for the other guy, not to stay home.
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I know, which is why i’m being honest about my non-vote. I am not advocating to abstain in elections, because as one can see in Alabama it does matter. I just hope that we were trying to elect qualified politicians and not just vote for the least worst options. To me the difference matters.
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“Moore banned from the National Mall.”
Ha! Thanks for that one!
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While I can’t say that Roy Moore was a better choice, I also can’t say Doug Jones was a “good” choice. Perhaps “better” is fair for Jones. But we are still putting up choices people can’t be proud they voted for. The black vote helped him win, but I can’t believe a lot of them feel great about it considering this ad.
https://bbs.boingboing.net/t/racism-and-bigotry-in-politics/
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Well that parade didn’t get very far 
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At this point all i can hope for is that with the level of visibility Jones has now his constituents will keep him honest and take him to task for fulfilling the wishes they want for their state, not what Jones wants.
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I hesitate to use the word “conspiracy” in regards to the anti-Hillary stuff if only because that implies it was happening in secret. Aside from some help from Wikileaks & Russia most of the smear campaigns were right out in the open.
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Honestly the write ins don’t matter where ever they might have gone.
Over here in reality the actual voters actually voted for some one else.
Its unlikely many of them would have gone to Roy Moore. Because whatever GOP votes are in that block are people who could not bring themselves to vote for Moore.
So yeah delegitimize the results by labeling those write ins as the cause. Portray them as some how not vote by not voters. Or something that was stolen from the GOP.
But it’s rather interesting that they’ve initially gone with the write ins rather than voter fraud. The voter fraud is all about deligitimizing our election system over all and blaming left wing policies and a frightening other.
Blaming write in votes that were called for by a GOP senator is about deligitimizing the results. And blaming “establishment” GOP members. Trump has rather loudly threatened primary challenges, And other things against GOP members that don’t tow the Trump line. That’s part of what sees them cynically backing him. The threat of challenge from the right. A certified Trump backed candidate just lost, in a state where the GOP shouldn’t be able to lose. Exactly the kind of candidate that represents those rightward challenges.
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Yeah, well, it’s a shame your party already outlawed hope. [middle finger emoji]
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That segment is on YouTube. There’s also an article about that episode on the Neighborhood Archive with links to the episode on iTunes and Amazon.
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You know, you got to love the GOP for trying to normalize their bad behavior and condem the Dems for the same or less. Trying, and failing in this case. If they had the guts to kick Moore out on his ass they could have run a 2x4 and won.
But they didn’t, so fuck’em.
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Or they could have lost the election but not be permanently branded as the party of bigoted child molesters. Either way they’d be a helluva lot better off than they are now.
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“Death. I mean cake!”
“Ah, you said death first! Aw, alright, you can have cake. Boy, we are running out. Who ever thought it would be so popular?”
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Oh, I think that brand is going to stick. Just because he lost doesn’t mean all those who said or did nothing don’t get off the pedo supporter hook so easily.
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Yeah. There’s a very good counterargument to this: people who wrote something in were choosing between doing the writein thing or not voting at all.
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Wow. Hotdamn.
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They felt safe because they are over 18.
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To be fair it appears he has combated overt racism against the KKK, etc. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t less apparent racism to deal with. Lots of the “pearl clutching” kind out there 
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