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SoonerPride

(12,286 posts) Wed Sep 30, 2020, 07:27 AM Sep 2020

I think that was his goal. Drive people away so they don't hear Joe

And drown him out for those trying to hear Joe

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I think that was his goal. Drive people away so they don't hear Joe (Original Post) SoonerPride Sep 2020 OP

Or make them so disgusted with it all that they don't vote. Mister Ed Sep 2020 #1

Mister Ed

(5,948 posts)

1. Or make them so disgusted with it all that they don't vote.

Reply to SoonerPride (Original post)

Wed Sep 30, 2020, 07:34 AM

Sep 2020

That's a long-standing tactic to keep turnout low. If casually-interested viewers are just turned off by the whole thing, then they may just feel like not participating at all, while the rabid Trump faithful turn out in droves.

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