2020 Primaries

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hjeagle1vol said:
It'll definitely be interesting to see you vote your conscience come Nov when Biden is your guy. It'll be very telling....

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How in the world would that be telling?
I've said since day one I would vote for a rock running against Trump.
The only way I would not vote for Trump's opponent is if he/she were within 20 percentile points of Trump's horrendously despicable score on the continuum. Biden isn't even close.
 
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luthervol said:
How in the world would that be telling?
I've said since day one I would vote for a rock running against Trump.
The only way I would not vote for Trump's opponent is if he/she were within 20 percentile points of Trump's horrendously despicable score on the continuum. Biden isn't even close.
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We would all love to see your scoring system.
 
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bnhunt said:
I noticed how you refused to actually acknowledge whether that is voter suppression or not. Just deflected as usual. I think you even know that it is, not that you will ever admit it.
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So here’s a quote from the Guardian article I think this story is coming from.

“The rush of poll closures in Texas cannot be attributed to any one policy. Just over half of the closures are part of a push toward centralized, countywide polling places, called "vote centers", which exist in almost a third of US states. Under countywide voting schemes, voters are no longer assigned to a polling place in their local precinct and can instead cast their ballot at any polling location in the county.

Voting rights advocates and both Republican and Democratic leaders have largely been in favor of vote centers because they can make it more convenient to vote by allowing people to vote near work, for instance and because they can reduce the number of people whose votes are thrown out because they went to the wrong polling place.

When deciding whether to close a polling station, elected officials typically consider how many people used it, as well as factors like public transportation accessibility. Some elections administrators who agree on the importance of protecting minority voters warn against assuming that closures are automatically a bad thing.

"I'd be curious to know how many of the consolidation efforts were good faith efforts [to] increase the number of options for a voter but also improve the kind of polling place that a particular voter may have voted in," said Chris Davis, the Williamson County elections administrator and former president of the Texas Association of Election Administrators. He pointed out that some precinct polling places were ADA-inaccessible.”

Also I saw somebody said most of the counties are democrat ran. So it would seem out of bounds to blame republican racism if true. Idk what to believe, I don’t live in Texas, but it’s really not that hard to find the other side of things. Articles will tell you the other point of view, even if they’re leftist publications. It’s just always surrounded by spin and normally at the end of an article.

Take the Guardian article for example. It starts hard by pointing out how the closings were mostly in minority communities and how these closings will be used for a Republican advantage. Only way later does it get to the part I quoted here. So all anybody gets is “Racism!”. Of course, there seems to me to be no substantial evidence to racism claims in the article. So take these things how you will.

Here’s the article if anyone’s interested:

Texas closes hundreds of polling sites, making it harder for minorities to vote
 
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Tennesseefan2019 said:
The fix is definitely in and it's as I predicted with Joe Biden winning 9 States and Bernie Sanders winning 4.
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The fix is in? Do you have proof votes were altered? You must be one of those butt hurt Trump supporters throwing your support to Bernie. You probably "predicted" Bernie would be the nominee .. Just what did you predict anyway?
 
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Mick said:
The fix is in? Do you have proof votes were altered? You must be one of those butt hurt Trump supporters throwing your support to Bernie. You probably "predicted" Bernie would be the nominee .. Just what did you predict anyway?
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The Democratic Establishment is pushing all the buttons to make sure Bernie Sanders loses. Yeah jerk i predicted yesterday that Joe Biden would win 9 States and Bernie Sanders would win 4.
 
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AM64 said:
I didn't intend to say that illegals were or wanted to vote. Just that a huge increase in minority population as a reason to maintain or increase polling places without considering that some - perhaps very large proportion of the increase was illegals who can't vote doesn't fly. Example: if population in a precinct goes up by 1000 and only 50 of those are legal voters then it doesn't justify adding a new polling location. And the articles I read some time ago mentioned that some TX precincts had few voters - fodder for combining them with another. My polling location has changed numerous times over the years based on population change and accommodations. If this had been strictly about population increase, move to disadvantage a legal minority population, and not just about quantified or unqualified "minority" population increase, then he would have had a valid point.
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That still doesn't explain reducing polling places in those areas.
 
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Tennesseefan2019 said:
The Democratic Establishment is pushing all the buttons to make sure Bernie Sanders loses. Yeah jerk i predicted yesterday that Joe Biden would win 9 States and Bernie Sanders would win 4.
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At this point a jerk would say "winning" but I do want to get your rationale straight. You were pulling for Bernie because you think he is the weakest candidate and Trump could beat him. Get used to losing. If you thought Obama was bad, the Biden Apology Tour will be epic.
 
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luthervol said:
By the electoral college, not the majority.
Deserves not to be forgotten.
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Actually it does deserve to be forgotten. The presidential election has never once worked like that.

You are moving goalposts while the game is in play.

What's funny is the majority you parrot is the way you could actually change the system. But they dont. Because it was only an issue for Hillary.
 
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Tennesseefan2019 said:
The Democratic Establishment is pushing all the buttons to make sure Bernie Sanders loses. Yeah jerk i predicted yesterday that Joe Biden would win 9 States and Bernie Sanders would win 4.
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If you think Sanders would make a great president feel free to write his name in on your ballot in November.
 
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