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Will you accept the election results.

Discussion in 'Too Hot for Swamp Gas' started by danmanne65, Nov 4, 2024 at 12:29 PM.

  1. Trickster

    Trickster VIP Member

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    My post was meant as humorous sarcasm! The election wasn't stolen in '20 and it won't be stolen in '24.
     
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  2. toon66

    toon66 VIP Member

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    In all honesty, I am an infinitely better person than these two shitheads. My life will plow forward regardless. Always has and always will.
     
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  3. CaptUSMCNole

    CaptUSMCNole Premium Member

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    I think we could see a EC blow out if the polls are off one way or the other.
     
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  4. GatorRade

    GatorRade Rad Scientist

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    This is the only proper answer, and it doesn’t really matter who is running or how dangerous they might be. The democratic system if candidate choice is immensely more important than the identity of the candidate elected.
     
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  5. rivergator

    rivergator Too Hot Mod Moderator VIP Member

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    There was an excellent quote here some months back: the key element in a Democracy is that the losing candidate accepts the fact that he lost.
     
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  6. uftaipan

    uftaipan GC Hall of Fame

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    That might matter if the Republicans win, but I have been told, on this very site, that the EC is not the legitimate, democratic measure of who wins this election. So, yeah, if the Democrats win big in the EC but only take the popular vote in the 50%+\-2% range, then I shouldn’t hear any of them characterize it as a landslide. A win, of course. But not a landslide. I want to see 60% or more of the popular vote before anyone goes and claims a “mandate”.
     
  7. pkaib01

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    Pretty high opinion of oneself given you actively undermine the very democracy you benefit from. Note taken.
     
  8. CaptUSMCNole

    CaptUSMCNole Premium Member

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    If Trump wins the EC and not the popular vote, I would expect to hear that a lot more over the next four years.
     
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  9. tilly

    tilly Superhero Mod. Fast witted. Bulletproof posts. Moderator VIP Member

    Not this again. You mean like when people claimed SCOTUS would hand him the election in 2020 yet they shot him down at every turn?
     
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  10. pkaib01

    pkaib01 GC Hall of Fame

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    Yes, but I think the institutional inertia is so hard to overcome.
     
  11. mrhansduck

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    60% is a high bar of course. Reagan won 49 states in 1984 yet received less than 60% of the popular vote. I do not expect to see a popular vote victory of 60% or more in my lifetime.
     
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  12. gatorchamps960608

    gatorchamps960608 GC Hall of Fame

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    No. More like recently where they allowed a voter purge in Virginia well past the 90-day cutoff before Election Day deadline.
     
  13. tilly

    tilly Superhero Mod. Fast witted. Bulletproof posts. Moderator VIP Member

    Blame Tim Kaine for that law.
     
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  14. gatorchamps960608

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    I could care less about the law. I care that Youngkin violated it and SCOTUS let him without even explaining why.
     
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  15. toon66

    toon66 VIP Member

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    That’s rich! Lol. Tell me how I undermine democracy?

    I have never given a BJ to advance my career and I have never just “grabbed ‘em by the …..”

    Yes, thanks to my upbringing, I am better than the two clowns running for president.
     
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  16. magnetofsnatch

    magnetofsnatch Rudy Ray Moore’s Idol Premium Member

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    I will accept the results and either collect my bet or pay it. Life will go on either way which is not what I can say for many that have commented on this thread.
     
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  17. pkaib01

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    You accuse parties of election fraud without evidence. Sorry toon.... that was Theo

    You apparently accuse women of prostitution without evidence. How can anyone that does that be "infinitely better" than someone else?

    Again, I think you are just trolling.
     
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  18. toon66

    toon66 VIP Member

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    I never accused any one of election fraud.

    I have never accused any one of prostitution?

    Not sure where you got all of that from?

    Take a deep breath and empower yourself. Don’t place so much of your future in the hands of people who don’t know or care about you. Politicians.

    For your sake, I hope Kamala wins. If she doesn’t, I’d say you’re in for a rough four years.
     
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  19. pkaib01

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    I conflated you and Theo on the election stuff. Sorry.

    The "BJ" comment is all yours, tho.
     
  20. flgator2

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    My post was also meant as humorous sarcasm! I never said it was