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"The People Have Spoken": Sen. Warnock Wins in Georgia in Victory Over GOP Voter Suppression Efforts (Original Post) Uncle Joe Dec 2022 OP
I think it was Adlai Stevenson, after losing an election that said Walleye Dec 2022 #1
What gets me is how close it was. How could people have voted for HW? it amazes me..nt mitch96 Dec 2022 #2
I believe it's from the extreme effects of tribalism Uncle Joe Dec 2022 #3
non thinking zombie voters.. "vote red don't ask questions, got it?"...nt mitch96 Dec 2022 #4
That's it, when one's emotions goes through the roof, Uncle Joe Dec 2022 #5
It amazes me, too. Rhiannon12866 Dec 2022 #6
It seems to me that the repukes were trying to play the race card in this instance.. mitch96 Dec 2022 #7

Walleye

(31,028 posts)
1. I think it was Adlai Stevenson, after losing an election that said
Wed Dec 7, 2022, 11:24 AM
Dec 2022

“The people have spoken, the bastards“. Politics was more fun back then

Uncle Joe

(58,366 posts)
3. I believe it's from the extreme effects of tribalism
Wed Dec 7, 2022, 04:06 PM
Dec 2022

greatly magnified by the previous administration.

Uncle Joe

(58,366 posts)
5. That's it, when one's emotions goes through the roof,
Wed Dec 7, 2022, 04:14 PM
Dec 2022

logic, reasoning and any righteous sense of morals can easily fly out the window.

That's how we get road rage.

Rhiannon12866

(205,552 posts)
6. It amazes me, too.
Thu Dec 8, 2022, 03:07 AM
Dec 2022

There was no comparison between these candidates, one has proven he's supremely qualified, the other barely knows what planet he's on...

mitch96

(13,912 posts)
7. It seems to me that the repukes were trying to play the race card in this instance..
Thu Dec 8, 2022, 10:27 AM
Dec 2022

Hoping to garner some votes this way and tip the scales. My thought was that HW was just a puppet if he got in and his job was to "do what he is told".. uff
I wonder how many in the congress/senate are in this position.. just follow the party line and do what you are told..
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