• silence7@slrpnk.netOP
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    2 months ago

    A lot of people don’t pay much attention until shortly before the election.

    His age and mental capacity can weigh on folks when he can’t give a decent explanation of what he’s going to do on a particular topic.

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      2 months ago

      Which is why we need to have another debate closer to the election. So those people might actually see it and the fact that he is completely senile and unable to form a coherent sentence.

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        2 months ago

        Even if it’s small, that still can matter in some elctions. Small changes in tight states can make a difference. Mind you in 2000, the presidental election came down to just 537 votes in florida

        Elections can be and often are won on the margins

        Edit: or also provide more state wins to make republicans trying to overide state results much more difficult

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          Mind you in 2000, the presidental election came down to just 537 votes in florida

          And that this led to the Supreme Court deciding who would be president instead of the voters. They didn’t finish recounting. How do we think it would go for us if the Supreme Court decided who would be our next president this year?

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            The Brooks Brothers riot stopped the counting. Gore would have won. Thousands of votes were thrown out because they were black votes and some voters both punched their votes for Gore and wrote Gore’s name in. The riot was planned so that the Extreme Court would give Bush the election.

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            2 months ago

            As a discarded Florida voter in that election, thank you for speaking up on my behalf. And I still feel pretty shitty about that.

            Gore absolutely should’ve won— those hanging chads be damned!