Pet Peeve number N+1

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Primaries are weird.

Parties are weird. We should have to write in the individual we are voting for on a blank, numbered paper with authenticity features. No messing around with a set of names with some advantage accruing to whoever is listed at the top.

[freebeard]

The only thing worse than two parties is one.

edit: So I go back to Youtube and on Valuetainment a commentator describes the 'U' in Uniparty. Youtube is in my head!

They're on about Tulsi Gabbard for Veep; which is what I wanted in the 2020 election.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by freebeard

The only thing worse than two parties is one.

Valuetainment commentator describes the 'U' in Uniparty.

Ideally, you have 330,000,000 parties voting their conscious of how to best preserve the founding ideals now and into the future.

The Uniparty interests overlap in the areas of consolidating authority at the most abstract level of politics (the executive branch) as well as money. We think past the sale by our preferred team color, convinced that things would be great if only our genius leader managed the monster slightly better.

For that reason, Vivek stands out as the antithesis to the uniparty while adopting a particular team color.

[freebeard]

Yesterday The Hill proposed Tulsi Gabbard as a Veep pick for RFK, Jr.

Can two Presidential candidates claim the same Vice President? If B-b-b-biden chimed in too, and all three had the same VP candidate, I'd feel better about the future as it unfolds.

[JSH]

Originally Posted by redpoint5

For that reason, Vivek stands out as the antithesis to the uniparty while adopting a particular team color.

Sadly his moment in the sun has passed and he dropped out of the race last night after coming in last.

Curious if DeSantis drops out after New Hampshire and this gets down to a person race. We will see if the GOP has learned anything since 2016.

[JSH]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Yesterday The Hill proposed Tulsi Gabbard as a Veep pick for RFK, Jr.

Can two Presidential candidates claim the same Vice President? If B-b-b-biden chimed in too, and all three had the same VP candidate, I'd feel better about the future as it unfolds.

Why would someone pick a VP that cannot become president? Tulsi Gabbard is American Samoan. While American Samoa is a US territory they are unique in that they are not US citizens.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by JSH

Sadly his moment in the sun has passed and he dropped out of the race last night after coming in last.

Curious if DeSantis drops out after New Hampshire and this gets down to a person race. We will see if the GOP has learned anything since 2016.

I knew he wouldn't make it. Can't win if nobody even knows your name. Still good to see a political outsider perform so well in such a short period of time.

Seems one team color poked the anthill of the other team color sufficiently that whatever could have been learned will be overridden by instinct.

I'll probably not vote, maintaining my perfect non-voting streak since 2004.

... all 4 of my schoolboard picks won their seats, which 'should' be more important to me than whoever sits in Washington with what is supposed to be very limited scope.

[Piotrsko]

Here in Nevada, a caucus isn't an election, you can do pretty much whatever in a caucus as long as a bunch of officials agree loud enough to win. The parties involved forward their results to the county registrar of voters and they appear on the ballot. As a result we sometimes get really weird candidates that end up with only a handful of votes.

The republican bunch are having a caucus a week after the primary. Not sure if the nominee will be on the official ballot if not named trump

[freebeard]

Originally Posted by JSH

Voting requirements that are perfectly designed to reduce participation among the poor and young.

Taiwan Voters Defeat CCP's Intentions. War Come Soon? Taiwan's "low tech" way of opening ballots... -- China Insights

In the election that just took place in Taiwan, some voters had to travel back to their home town to vote. Some had to fly back in from overseas.

edit: From another source, the turnout was 71%.

[JSH]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Taiwan Voters Defeat CCP's Intentions. War Come Soon? Taiwan's "low tech" way of opening ballots... -- China Insights

In the election that just took place in Taiwan, some voters had to travel back to their home town to vote. Some had to fly back in from overseas.

edit: From another source, the turnout was 71%.

1. 71% turnout is pretty poor.
2. Who are the 29% that didn't vote.