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Post by PhantomWolf on Nov 8, 2006 16:15:08 GMT -4
I'm rather interested how the CT's plan to spin this election result. Did the Democrats pay of Diebold more than the Rep's could? How does Rummy's force resignation fit into the whole 9/11/Iraq/Get rich scheme of things..... Stay tuned for the next exciting chapter of CT in the USA.
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Post by Jason on Nov 8, 2006 16:39:15 GMT -4
Maybe they'll all start singing "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead"?
Naaah, hoax believers are not optimists. They'll probably start to spin theories that Rumsfield is retiring from an active government post to act as the puppetmaster of the hidden shadow government (EDIT) from a secure location.
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Post by gillianren on Nov 8, 2006 17:11:47 GMT -4
And we all know how well that would go. He wouldn't listen to his hidden shadow generals, either.
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Post by nomuse on Nov 8, 2006 17:37:43 GMT -4
You forgot to work in "...from a secure location."
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Post by reynoldbot on Nov 8, 2006 21:46:35 GMT -4
I'm wondering if Diebold is going to recieve complaints from the GOP for not changing people's votes to republican votes. "I want my money back!!"
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Post by nomuse on Nov 9, 2006 16:44:29 GMT -4
I'm waiting for the far right wing of the conservative right to start screaming about "Those darn gays have done it...they got a lady senator from 'frisco to be house speaker!"
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Post by gillianren on Nov 10, 2006 1:12:25 GMT -4
As if they had managed it completely on their own--and as if there weren't, you know, Log Cabin Republicans, who are generally not the sort to vote for Pelosi.
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Post by lenbrazil on Nov 10, 2006 8:43:55 GMT -4
The theory could be that they allowed the Dems to win this year to through off suspicion. I don't know baseless such theories are in other countries when we see discrepancies between exit polls and election results doubt is cast on the vote count, in the US doubt is cast on the exits polls. Let's say the situation was reversed and there were several instances when the vote count on voting machines produced by a company owned by a Democratic Party activist gave the GOP less votes than we would expect due to exit polls?
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Post by Jason on Nov 10, 2006 11:51:49 GMT -4
In such a situation I would still fault the exit polls.
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Post by nomuse on Nov 10, 2006 16:23:09 GMT -4
Here's a fun little conspiracy-eta for you. My workplace functions as the local polling place for one of the more conservative neighborhoods in the Bay Area. On election day our power went out, rendering the Diebold's inoperative. Some coincidence....we are on a protected circuit shared with a senior facility, giving us the same priority (and immunity from rolling blackouts) as a hospital. So obviously someone pretty high up had to authorize this outage.....
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Post by Jason on Nov 13, 2006 13:38:50 GMT -4
I have now come across a conspiracy theory that the Republican party purposefully lost the election in order to give the Democrats the responsibility for the Iraqi war. The idea is if the Democrats force a pull out and it's a disasterous mess then they get the blame and the GOP gets back in power. If they find a solution that resolves the war in a victory then the Republicans still get the issue that they feel dragged them down most this election resolved and can then concentrate their efforts elswhere for future elections.
It's almost plausible.
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Post by bazbear on Nov 15, 2006 4:22:17 GMT -4
Setting aside conspiracy theories, you should see the reaction of the more extreme conservatives on other forums such as Military.com or Hannity.com . The sky is falling! ;D But at least the vast majority seem to except the results as genuine. In the words of Pete Townshend "Smile and grin at the change all around Pick up my guitar and play Just like yesterday Then I'll get on my knees and pray We don't get fooled again"
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Post by echnaton on Nov 15, 2006 10:58:19 GMT -4
And of course the corollary to the hope for change, after a great musical interlude and the best scream in rock and roll: “Meet the new boss, the same as the old boss.”
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Post by Jason on Nov 15, 2006 12:42:51 GMT -4
The reactions of the GOP/conservatives with their current loss as compared to the reaction of the Democrats/liberals with their loss in 2000 or 2004 are night and day.
I predicted earlier that we might not know until December if the Senate would be controlled by the Republicans or Democrats - well if it had been a Democrat who had lost we wouldn't, because he would have demanded recounts. The Republican candidates in Montana and Virginia, on the other hand, showed the class to step aside rather than strike another blow against the credibility of the US electoral system.
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Post by bazbear on Nov 16, 2006 2:29:42 GMT -4
And of course the corollary to the hope for change, after a great musical interlude and the best scream in rock and roll: “Meet the new boss, the same as the old boss.” Alas, too true. But I've always preferred when at least one house of congress isn't of the party of the chief executive. It seems to cut down on the "go along to get along" factor.
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