Vote for "Rich Whitey"

Grizzly Adams said:
Stop crying about a hypothetical question. It's a valid point to point out a similar scenario and theorize how it might be handled differently.
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It's a silly, idiotic, absurd scenario. Your theorization about political bias in the local rules for when ballots have their final printing, and that it's by definition anti-conservative, are pure, unadulterated, drivelly, whiney lunacy.


If you don't like it, the solutiuon is quite simple, but I'll clue you in anyway in case you can't figure it out: DON'T *********** READ IT.
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But you have misunderstood. I liked it very much. Sometimes I read the ravings on these boards and roar with delight.


I didn't whine and I didn't complain. Don't minimize the things I say. If you feel the words that flow ffrom my keyboard are so inconsequential, you should just put me on ignore instead of trolling me.

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I've never used the ignore function -- don't even know how. 'Trolling' you is fun. Please write soon.
 
Grizzly Adams said:
If Niger Innis were on the ballot and his name were misspelled as it was once during an appearance on MSNBC, what do you think the odds are that the election officials would find some way to rectify the problem? (If Niger Innis were A: running for office and, perhaps more importantly, B: not a conservative...)
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If my name was Niger Innis & it happened to me I'd create an add with me surrounded by white women giving a thumbs up, smiling & winking.
 
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Grizzly Adams said:
If Niger Innis were on the ballot and his name were misspelled as it was once during an appearance on MSNBC, what do you think the odds are that the election officials would find some way to rectify the problem? (If Niger Innis were A: running for office and, perhaps more importantly, B: not a conservative...)
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Considering Rich is a Green party candidate, the second half of your hypothetical (and the most important part, according to you) isn't really hypothetical at all.
 
Newtons Bit said:
That would be a wonderful magical fantasy land ;)

I think actual policies is perhaps 25% of the reason why a vote is cast. Other notable reasons:
  • How attractive the candidate is
  • How the candidate feels about one specific social issue
  • Whether or not the candidate is the first person on the ballot
  • How their parents voted
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you missed one. Some people vote based on party, regardless of what policies the party actually espouse.

This is why, until recently, we had Democrats dominating the south. Regardless of the fact that the Republican party was more in line with thier values, they still associated Republicans with Reconstruction and voted Democrat.

I guess this kind of fits your last point, but is a bit more specific.
 
boooeee said:
Considering Rich is a Green party candidate, the second half of your hypothetical (and the most important part, according to you) isn't really hypothetical at all.
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Ok, now I'm confused. Is the guy white or green?
 
cwalner said:
you missed one. Some people vote based on party, regardless of what policies the party actually espouse.

This is why, until recently, we had Democrats dominating the south. Regardless of the fact that the Republican party was more in line with thier values, they still associated Republicans with Reconstruction and voted Democrat. I guess this kind of fits your last point, but is a bit more specific.
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Southerners started to vote Republican with Nixon in 1968 and some with Goldwater in 1964 so the change was not recent. Also the only Reconstruction Southerners remember is the one in the 1960s not 1860s.
 
MaGZ said:
Southerners started to vote Republican with Nixon in 1968 and some with Goldwater in 1964 so the change was not recent. Also the only Reconstruction Southerners remember is the one in the 1960s not 1860s.
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That's when the change started, but it did not really start effecting the makeup of congress significantly until the 'Republican Revolution' from the '90s. I consider that as recent, when taken in context of the sum of US history.

Also sometimes people have long memories. The Reconstruction of the 1860's was pretty brutal on the south. It took several generations before they were willing to trust the Republicans afterwards. Although Southern Democrats were not very liberal during that period. Remember, Strom Thurmand was originally a Democrat.
 
cwalner said:
That's when the change started, but it did not really start effecting the makeup of congress significantly until the 'Republican Revolution' from the '90s. I consider that as recent, when taken in context of the sum of US history.

Also sometimes people have long memories. The Reconstruction of the 1860's was pretty brutal on the south. It took several generations before they were willing to trust the Republicans afterwards. Although Southern Democrats were not very liberal during that period. Remember, Strom Thurmand was originally a Democrat.
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Yes Reconstruction was brutal on the South but memory began to fade in the 1950s. Thomas Dixon’s books were no longer published then and there were no more Gone With the Winds.

The film Birth of a Nation was in 1915.
 
cwalner said:
That's when the change started, but it did not really start effecting the makeup of congress significantly until the 'Republican Revolution' from the '90s. I consider that as recent, when taken in context of the sum of US history.

Also sometimes people have long memories. The Reconstruction of the 1860's was pretty brutal on the south. It took several generations before they were willing to trust the Republicans afterwards. Although Southern Democrats were not very liberal during that period. Remember, Strom Thurmand was originally a Democrat.
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The first Republican to be elected Governor in Alabama after Reconstruction was in 1987.
 
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