Warren G. Harding, a newspaper magnate and Senator from Ohio, James Cox (as in Cox Communications) a newspaper magnate and Governor from Ohio, and Eugene V. Debs, a socialist who ran his campaign from prison, where he was serving a sentence for espionage. Harding won in a landslide, and turned out to be a pretty corrupt SOB, a fact only discovered after his death in office. 2016 does not have a monopoly on crazy.
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Deliver us now from shitty polling intended to get people writing about polls.
âRiggedâ in this context can mean that the respondent thinks
- the process favors one general sort of candidate over another
- there are shady figures in burglar masks making off with ballots
- the party exerts too much control
- the party exerts too little control
- itâs what the pollster wants to hear
- the party is fine but the state conducts elections in ways I donât like
- a particular candidate the respondent was thinking of in a particular race is untrustworthy and so his or her wins are suspicious
- the process is fair and appropriate but nevertheless technically âriggedâ because it is not some hypothetical pure national plebiscite
- the political system itself is âriggedâ
- thereâs nothing in particular that seems wrong, but Iâm trying to register my distress that my candidate is not doing as well as Iâd like, and this is the closest Iâll get to a chance to do that in this poll
- my/your party is fine, but your/my partyâs nomination process is âriggedâ
- I am four years old and I like it when mommy says âgoddamn nuisance callsâ and lets me mash the buttons on the phone
In the year 2016, this question works about as well to divine public opinion as penicillin does to cure MRSA, and for the same reason: we have developed resistance to that kind of weak-ass shit. For crying out loud, they put scare quotes in the damn question.
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Hardingâs corruption (relative to the standards of the day) was something between an open secret and a general scandal even before he died, although youâre right that the full measure of it had to wait until he wasnât around to play defense anymore.
What DID have to wait until long after his death to be revealed was what a damn playa he was with the ladies, and I do not mean Mrs. Harding. Any president can have an affair. It took Warren Mothafuckinâ Harding to give us secret love letters like this:
âIf I had you today, Iâd kiss and fondle you into my arms and hold you there until you said, âWarren, oh, Warren,â in a benediction of blissful joy. âŚWouldnât you like to get sopping wet out on Superior â not the lake â for the joy of fevered fondling and melting kisses? Wouldnât you like to make the suspected occupant of the next room jealous of the joys he could not know, as we did in morning communion at Richmond?â"
DAMN SON
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yeah but they want it.
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Comment withheld pending election outcome.
(Xeni, please repost in November}
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In some states. In CT, only the presidential candidates are on the Democratic ballot.
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Iâll just leave this here:
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The whole primary/caucus system is just bullshit made up by the Republican and Democratic parties. They made the rules and they can change them however they want. None of it is in the constitution.
The only reason they have primaries and caucuses is propaganda and publicity.
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This is a former Hillary Clinton supporter who will no longer support her due to her obvious issue with fraud.
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While I donât believe elections are rigged in the traditional sense, I definitely believe illegal/unethical things are done by 3rd parties to help influence the outcome.
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The statistical evidence is pretty overwhelmingâŚ
https://richardcharnin.wordpress.com/category/2016-election/
From 1988 through 2008 the probability of America presidential elections being fair are about 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000005.
(Thatâs less than one in a googol!)
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This just in - Google is rigging elections!
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That sounds like some of the unsolicited messages I get when I try dating sites. Even if my profile is blank.
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They do not, however, need to be called âmotherfuckersâ.
Isnât that how new Americans get made?
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Only in the southern states
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Some day weâll look back on this election and laugh.
Itâll probably be one of those deep, eerie ones that slowly builds to a blood-curdling maniacal scream⌠but itâll still be a laugh.
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Letâs make sure Bernie stay in even if the Democrats donât nominate him.
Go to change.org and sign the petition:
Donât let the DNC keep us from feeling the Bern
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Itâs the epithet Amercica deserves, but not the one it needs.
Jim Gordon
US elections are blatantly rigged.
Workday elections, partisan districting, ridiculously long voting queues, difficult voter registration, tight restrictions on postal votingâŚnone of these things are accidental or inevitable. But way too many Americans act as if they were.
Again: I live in a country with near 100% voter turnout. Elections are on weekends, postal voting is trivially easy, I have never had to wait more than ten minutes to vote and I have never lived outside walking distance of a polling booth. These things are not hard to doâŚunless your ruling class actively decides not to do them.
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My state is all vote by mail so not all of the US is stuck with the same set of problems. People still actively choose not to vote though even with it being as simple as dropping an envelope in a mailbox (and paying postage, naturally).
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