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Roy Rolling

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32. It's a tiny reason

Reply to Cosmocat (Reply #13)

Sun May 19, 2019, 05:04 PM

May 2019

It's dumb.

Every election is lost when the losing side doesn't get enough voters to the polls.

It's the laziest excuse in the book and chickenshit. It avoids the complicated issues.

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