Shut up Cheney -- Dems win Senate

[Skeezix]

It's Webb in Virginia. Cheney is neutered in Senate. The rebuke is almost complete.

[cj001f]

Richard Pombo lost in California! I can barely contain the glee at sending that dipshit back to Tracy!

[Ducknut]

Richard Pombo lost in California! I can barely contain the glee at sending that dipshit back to Tracy!

 

That assclown got his ass wiped. Too bad Doolittle didn't. The list of incumbent Republicans who lost is pretty amazing. It seems like every R that had any name recognition in their districts went down.

[mythosgrl]

Yes, as President Bush said today about the GOP, they got "a thumpin." Who says that?!? All i can say is that i'm excited to see what the Daily Show says about that one!

[BillA]

That's a mandate from the American people motherfuckers.

[dberdinka]

Pombo was a fat, loathsome, greasy shitbag for sure. I almost can't believe how much good news keeps piling up from all this.

[tvashtarkatena]

Let's all go get a lap dance. Part-aaaaayyyyyy!

[Dechristo]

That's a mandate from the American people motherfuckers.

 

I mandate, you mandate, we all mandate; this talk belongs here, anyway.

[jordop]

Yeah this is all great and shit but what's really depressing is the millions of people who still found a way to vote republican

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Yeah this is all great and shit but what's really depressing is the millions of people who still found a way to vote republican

 

More evidence that lefties are Marxists in (a thinly-veiled) disguise. There should only be only party on the ballot, and one party member in office at every level of government, ne pravda li tovarish?

[Dr_Flush_Amazing]

Yeah this is all great and shit but what's really depressing is the millions of people who still found a way to vote republican

 

More evidence that lefties are Marxists in (a thinly-veiled) disguise. There should only be only party on the ballot, and one party member in office at every level of government, ne pravda li tovarish?

 

 

Actually, I think we should have multiple parties with a runoff system so that non-Dem, non-Rep parties (like the Green, Independent, Socialist, Communist, Libertarian, whatever) parties actually have a chance and a vote for one of them actually means something.

[sexual_chocolate]

Actually, I think we should have multiple parties with a runoff system so that non-Dem, non-Rep parties (like the Green, Independent, Socialist, Communist, Libertarian, whatever) parties actually have a chance and a vote for one of them actually means something.

 

[KaskadskyjKozak]

Actually, I think we should have multiple parties with a runoff system so that non-Dem, non-Rep parties (like the Green, Independent, Socialist, Communist, Libertarian, whatever) parties actually have a chance and a vote for one of them actually means something.

 

I think proportional representation rather than runoffs would be better, but otherwise I agree.

 

[Gary_Yngve]

too bad Regula got reelected.

[tvashtarkatena]

One way to have fairer, more representative elections is to give voters 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc. choices of candidates on the ballot. If the 1st choice loses, the vote goes to the 2nd choice.

 

With this system, candidates favored to win have an incentive to include at least part of their politically similar competitors' agendas if they want to capture those votes.

 

In addition, the Nader/Gore syndrome is avoided. Voters could send a message without casting a de facto vote for the other side.

[Dechristo]

 

In addition, the Nader/Gore syndrome is avoided. Voters could send a message without casting a de facto vote for the other side.

 

Before which was the Bush41/Perot "syndrome" in '92.

 

You'd have prefered a second term for Bush41 instead of the other guy elected?

[tvashtarkatena]

You'd have prefered a second term for Bush41 instead of the other guy elected?

 

In all conceivable permutations, I say let the voters decide.

[ClimbingPanther]

If the 1st choice loses

 

Sorry, I am not comprehending this... if your vote went for the first choice and that person lost, how can your vote change? Are you talking primaries or Nov.?

[Dechristo]

 

You'd have prefered a second term for Bush41 instead of the other guy elected?

 

 

 

In all conceivable permutations, I say let the voters decide.

 

 

Fourteen years later, it's easy to be this magnanimous.

[tvashtarkatena]

There are multiple rounds of counting.

 

1) 1st place choices are counted.

2) If your candidate loses and your 2nd choice candidate comes in 2nd in the first round of counting, your 2nd choice vote is added to the 2nd place tally.

 

Ex: You vote this way: 1st choice: Nader 2nd choice: Gore

 

Bush comes in 1st, Gore 2nd. Naders votes are added to Gore's total.

 

Of course, if your 2nd choice is Bush, then your vote for Nader goes to Bush.

[tvashtarkatena]

You changed your post, I noticed. The 1st was a bit more...revealing, shall we say.

[Dechristo]

and all votes for Hanging Chad go to...?

[KaskadskyjKozak]

and all votes for Hanging Chad go to...?

 

It's ironic how when the R's win, the left screams that there is widespread voting fraud, disenfranchisement, not to mention a stupid electorate. But when the D's win, nothing of the kind.

 

And note the class shown by R's in close races: they concede rather than drag in lawyers and recounts. Something the D's should take and example from (fat chance).

[ClimbingPanther]

I was thinking that same thing, KK. Maybe it's because only Republicans perpetrate fraud and Democrats are only looking for a fair shake.

[Dechristo]

It will be discovered that there are genetic predispositions to conservatism and liberalism. Further, that it is a genetic mutation that allows for the "liberal" predisposition enabling and accepting change in an otherwise static "conservative" environment.

 

This genetic discovery will be viewed as supporting both the theory of continued human evolution and the evolutionary theory of Hopeful Monsters.