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We can't even hold a goddam election (Original Post) cilla4progress Nov 2020 OP
2018 went OK. I'm satisfied enough with this election. Do think states Hoyt Nov 2020 #1
I may be biting on the wrong cilla4progress Nov 2020 #2
And the Fox bdamomma Nov 2020 #3
If it makes you feel better... mwooldri Nov 2020 #4
The major issues were instigated by GOPers....... groundloop Nov 2020 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author groundloop Nov 2020 #6
We did, but we getting a show too. whttevrr Nov 2020 #7
Sweet! cilla4progress Nov 2020 #8
Yip, besides the humiliation SHITLER has put us through in the eyes of the world, UTUSN Nov 2020 #9
 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
1. 2018 went OK. I'm satisfied enough with this election. Do think states
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 12:24 AM
Nov 2020

ought to change their laws on receipt of mail-in ballots.

Now, close to 70 M voting for trump is hard to stomach. But, that’s a different matter.

bdamomma

(63,791 posts)
3. And the Fox
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 12:28 AM
Nov 2020

Noise is ordering all their hosts (they are not reporters) to not call him the President elect. That's Murdoch.


Fox needs to be muzzled.

mwooldri

(10,299 posts)
4. If it makes you feel better...
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 12:29 AM
Nov 2020

Boris Johnson had to run against Count Binface, Lord Buckethead and an Interplanetary Time Lord. Granted, these "candidates" provided some levity to the process but who knows what the outcome would have been if there were more candidates for office on the ballot.

groundloop

(11,513 posts)
5. The major issues were instigated by GOPers.......
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 12:36 AM
Nov 2020

GOPer controlled state legislatures refused to pass legislation allowing mail in ballots to even be touched before election day, if those could have been counted even a day or two ahead it would have avoided a ton of chaos (of course chaos is what trump and GOPers wanted).

And of course there's DeJoy's castration of the post office. Team trump saw to it that mail in ballots would be held up by the US Postal Service, and now they're complaining that it's taking too long to count them and attempting to keep them from being counted.

Response to cilla4progress (Original post)

UTUSN

(70,641 posts)
9. Yip, besides the humiliation SHITLER has put us through in the eyes of the world,
Sat Nov 7, 2020, 01:20 AM
Nov 2020

our 18th Century system of gridlock is a mockery.

* Zeus forfend that we should have something simple - like all popular vote, perhaps quadrant regional primaries, everything wrapped up in six months -------------- BUT NOooooo!1

* Federalism? Why, supposing that each individual is equal, should somebody in one area have different access to voting or CHOICE or whatever than somebody in another piece of real estate?

* Electoral College - words are not needed.

* Perpetual campaigning, two terms, three months before the "winner" takes office? The ancient Church debated about 4 year terms for popes and ruled it out precisely because 4 year elections would result in perpetual campaigning.







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