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#4731 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 513 weeks ago
mitchejw wrote:Randall Flagg wrote:From your article:
"Voter turnout in this year's presidential primary was the highest since 1972 with voter ID in place, so to now suggest turnout was down in the general election because of it is wrong," Evenson said. "We have made voting easy while ensuring it is hard to cheat. Lower turnout in the general election was true nationwide. It was not unique to Wisconsin or voter ID."
Albrecht acknowledged that some of the drop-off in turnout had to do with the candidates and less enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. He also did not have statistics detailing how many voters were turned away for not having the proper ID."
So we see a lower turnout compared to 2012 nationwide, but the article wants to blame voter ID in Wisconsin. It also points to low income areas of Milwaukee, which surprise, turned out nationwide in surprisingly lower numbers than they did in 2012.
Clinton was a bad candidate and represented everything people hate about D.C. You think Clinton knows who Rogers is? Think she's drinking a beer while eating some cheese talking about what model Harley she prefers? Milwaukee and Wisconsin in general is a bastion of white working class who heavily favored Trump.
This is why. If you guys go full retard and align yourselves with Warren and Sanders types for 2020, you'll have a repeat. Quit looking to liberal elites who couldn't change their own oil. Accept that Clinton was such a shit candidate, half the country voted for the guy who hosted a reality TV show over her.
I don't interpret that quote the same way you do....it's where votes "disappeared" that matters...and I'm talking about state governments who get to create their own rules for voting systems....where is your evidence of "cheating" anyway? I have never seen any evidence...except that scattered republican voters who voted twice in the last 4 years. I didn't ever hear you condemn that RF...
Essentially what you're saying is my choice in this country is between Republican lite and Republican?
You say that about "liberal elite" but what about your precious conservative elites? We just elected the most elite of the elite!
I will not be put in the position of defending Hillary....
I didn't say they cheated, the article did. But someone wearing a burka was able to get Huma Abedin's manhattan ballot because they don't require ID. Every state has public voting rolls that show the last time someone voted. If all you require is a Comcast bill with a matching name on it, that's a huge gaping hole in our elections that could easily be manipulated. From a simple integrity perspective, controls should be in place. Anyone caught violating our election laws should be punished to the fullest extent of the law, regardless of party. I could link numerous examples of democratic voter fraud, but if you're interested just google it. Here is a generic issue from the Washington post citing examples: http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/ … ts-all-to/
I didn't vote for Trump remember. I voted for Kasich in the primary and would have voted for Rubio next. Hardly elites of the GOP and world. Wasn't Rubio criticized during the debates for being 180k or so in debt? Meanwhile Clinton left the White House with Millions in the bank and told reporters they were almost bankrupt. Bernie just closed on his 3rd house by the way, but I wouldn't call him elite.
Ok....but let's talk about proportion...we're gonna prevent 89 people in Colorado from voting twice by enacting strict voter ID laws that may actually block hundreds of thousands of actual qualified voters from voting? - I feel like this is so transparent that I don't even need my glasses to see through it....
If anything....it's very clever....it's clever to disguise this voter ID clause as a way to protect democracy when it actually, in an applied setting, stops more people who should vote than it does prevent voter fraud.
Because even if it's just a comcast bill that shows your (in wisconsin it's charter) address....it seemed to work for the vast majority 99.99% of people who voted honestly.
It's really an ingenious strategy...
1) cite voter fraud in a very vague or skewed way because we all know that 99.99% of people are against voter fraud
2) create a plan as a guise to prevent voter fraud (never actually say we're preventing a few dozen votes in fraud)
3) create plans to make access to these voter IDs difficult in some (very calculated) areas and use "budget" concerns as the excuse.
4) Make basic knowledge about how to get a proper voter ID intentionally vague
#4732 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 513 weeks ago
Here you have....if you scroll down far enough the distribution of Wisconsin state government representatives:
http://uselections.com/wi/wi.htm
Now....take a look at this....this just appears to be a basic breakdown of votes - not really an opinion
key paragraph:
For instance, Republicans received 49 percent of the 2.9 million votes cast in Wisconsin’s congressional races, but won five out of eight, or 62.5 percent, of the seats, according to the Center’s analysis. The Center analyzed unofficial 2012 results reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and official 2010 results from the state Government Accountability Board
This is a 2012 article about state government: http://wisconsinwatch.org/2012/11/2012- … -analysis/
this needs explanation....this is what you should focus on
#4733 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 513 weeks ago
AtariLegend wrote:Law was changed in 2014 for stricter voter ID laws. Milwaukee turnout supposedly dropped by 41K alone http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nati … story.html
Here's a story on it pre-election. https://www.thenation.com/article/a-90- … er-id-law/
From your article:
"Voter turnout in this year's presidential primary was the highest since 1972 with voter ID in place, so to now suggest turnout was down in the general election because of it is wrong," Evenson said. "We have made voting easy while ensuring it is hard to cheat. Lower turnout in the general election was true nationwide. It was not unique to Wisconsin or voter ID."
Albrecht acknowledged that some of the drop-off in turnout had to do with the candidates and less enthusiasm for Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. He also did not have statistics detailing how many voters were turned away for not having the proper ID."
So we see a lower turnout compared to 2012 nationwide, but the article wants to blame voter ID in Wisconsin. It also points to low income areas of Milwaukee, which surprise, turned out nationwide in surprisingly lower numbers than they did in 2012.
Clinton was a bad candidate and represented everything people hate about D.C. You think Clinton knows who Rogers is? Think she's drinking a beer while eating some cheese talking about what model Harley she prefers? Milwaukee and Wisconsin in general is a bastion of white working class who heavily favored Trump.
This is why. If you guys go full retard and align yourselves with Warren and Sanders types for 2020, you'll have a repeat. Quit looking to liberal elites who couldn't change their own oil. Accept that Clinton was such a shit candidate, half the country voted for the guy who hosted a reality TV show over her.
I don't interpret that quote the same way you do....it's where votes "disappeared" that matters...and I'm talking about state governments who get to create their own rules for voting systems....where is your evidence of "cheating" anyway? I have never seen any evidence...except that scattered republican voters who voted twice in the last 4 years. I didn't ever hear you condemn that RF...
Essentially what you're saying is my choice in this country is between Republican lite and Republican?
You say that about "liberal elite" but what about your precious conservative elites? We just elected the most elite of the elite!
I will not be put in the position of defending Hillary....
#4734 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 513 weeks ago
Here you have....if you scroll down far enough the distribution of Wisconsin state government representatives:
http://uselections.com/wi/wi.htm
Now....take a look at this....this just appears to be a basic breakdown of votes - not really an opinion
key paragraph:
For instance, Republicans received 49 percent of the 2.9 million votes cast in Wisconsin’s congressional races, but won five out of eight, or 62.5 percent, of the seats, according to the Center’s analysis. The Center analyzed unofficial 2012 results reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and official 2010 results from the state Government Accountability Board
This is a 2012 article about state government: http://wisconsinwatch.org/2012/11/2012- … -analysis/
#4735 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 513 weeks ago
Ok so....if you look deeper....the quote is slightly misleading and correlation doesn't mean causation....however here's what I have:
Essentially...prior to the election last week...300,000 REGISTERED voters in Wisconsin still had not obtained the proper voter ID. Bare in mind that while simultaneously requiring some of the most strict voter ID laws in the country, Scott (take credit for everything) Walker shut down an obscene number of DMVs....which are, I believe the best place to obtain a voter ID. I believe we can confirm easily that Trump won Wisconsin by about 30k. Let's bare in mind that the entire population of Wisconsin is about 5 million.
In addition, these voter IDs were supposed to be "free." There are some articles going back a year claiming that DMV employees were told not to share with people that voter IDs were "free."
The links I am sharing are to twitter feeds....which eventually lead back to, "The Nation" magazine. Pretty sure it's left leaning. But they have a guy born and raised in Wisconsin who has a pretty good reputation when it comes to this stuff....John Nichols. Who I have followed for many years.
#4736 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 513 weeks ago
Two things that concern me...
Gerrymandering and voter suppression. Laws...
I keep reading about government at the state level in states like Wisconsin and Michsgan - Democrats receive more votes than republicans by a sig. margin but the state houses are filled with republicans.
How does this not bother anyone?
Something like 300,000 people were denied the right to vote in Wisconsin based on the new rules. Trump won the state by 30,000.
#4737 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 513 weeks ago
^^ This is going to be ugly/hysterical.
Anyone think they promoted Christie just to fire and humiliate him?
What does all this mean? Now that Trump doesn't have anyone to shine the spotlight on and disparage....he can't seem to step into it.
I don't know how to interpret this because I have nothing to compare it to...
#4738 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 513 weeks ago
I mean...when even Glenn Beck is acknowledging white supremacist tendencies in Trumps advisory staff...then what else is there to deny?
#4739 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 513 weeks ago
I noticed the Clinton voters are being real dicks to a fellow Clinton voter in Randall. Fucked up you would eat your own like that.
It is not my intention to come off that way...I am trying very hard to focus on the conversation and not the insults
#4740 Re: The Garden » US Politics Thread » 513 weeks ago
mitchejw wrote:Randall Flagg wrote:This is a claim often rolled out to distance the DNC from its racist past. What policy positions did Democrats hold then that Republicans have adopted?
The DNC is still the party that looks at you and makes assumptions based on your race. They still want laws that treat you differently based on race. Not much has changed, just none of you consider that racist.
This is absurd RF....and I'm going to post a bunch of stuff and avoid responding to your question and defend my original claim by providing a wall of text?
That's nice, but answer the question. What did the GOP take from the DNC to make the parties flip. You claimed it, now support it.
I don't understand what you mean by "take?" - part of the problem here may be that I don't understand your question. I never used the phrase "flipped" I don't think....but if I did then it I shouldn't have....Flip is not the right word...
Equality under the law is another very vague term. But to me it implies that all the advantages of being here for centuries are totally fair game...and anyone new the to game needs 'get in line.' It's like we're playing a game of monopoly but you get to go around the board 10 times before my first turn.
In general, and correct me if I'm wrong, Republicans prefer as few rules and laws as possible. They view that as "equality" because no one gets an unfair advantage over anyone else....but the means we have to pretend what I said in the previous paragraph doesn't exist.
I will attempt to answer you question about 'taking' but I already admit I'm not certain what you mean by that.
Essentially, I view Southern Democrats in the days of the 1850s as people who were vehemently opposed to change. The were opposed to social changes especially. They did not want the fundamentals of southern life to change at all. They have done their damnedest to keep the old south's ideals alive even to this day. They were extremely conservative and defensive of their way of life. It was the northern Yankee Repubs that were actually in favor of changes in fundamental aspects of society. That to me seems progressive. Politics seems to be the same story over and over again. One party trying to change society, and one party trying to keep it the same. Take the terms Republican and Democrat out of it. In our 2-party system, it's always one party vying for change and one party trying to keep things the same. I do believe though that the system makes it difficult to make large scale changes. I think that's probably a good thing.
Before I go on...I need to know if this is acceptable as an argument for you. I won't waste my time if it's going to be dismissed.
