Greedy Oil Puritan
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Fri Jul-30-04 08:37 PM
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Does the right ever play fair to win elections and referenda? |
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Aside from the obvious with the GOP, the far-right in Taiwan is particularly disgusting.
The Taiwan-nationalists are centrist and left-leaning, while the China-nationalists are far to the right.
The China-nationalists control the legislature and pass a bill making referenda initiated by the President (centre-left Taiwan-nationlist Chen Shui-bien) invalid if turn-out is lower than 50%.
Knowing that a majority of voters were going to support the referenda, they then instructed supporters to abstain on the referendum ballots, thus keeping the turn-out at 45% and ensuring that the results would be invalid. (which in the case of Chen's questions, would have the same result as a no vote)
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patdem
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Fri Jul-30-04 08:50 PM
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1. 'Aside from the obvious GOP..'...what does Greedy Old Puritan say |
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Fri Jul-30-04 08:53 PM
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They are all assholes and they don't give a shit what they have to do to win. Is this news to you?
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morningglory
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Fri Jul-30-04 08:58 PM
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3. Newt Gingrich said to Bill Clinton: "We have no policies that would be |
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attractive to anyone (but corporate greedheads) so we have to play dirty and get ignorant people all flapped up about non-issues." My paraphrase and slant, but true picture of what he said.
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