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LastLiberal in PalmSprings

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6. They can only count them if the votes haven't literally been "tossed out."

Reply to aggiesal (Reply #3)

Sun Oct 21, 2018, 07:04 AM

Oct 2018

The Repukes are playing a game of "run out the clock." They figure that since the courts are reluctant to get involved in stuff like counting the votes so close to the election, they will just do their nefarious deeds in plain sight and get away with it. Like with Kavanaugh, the only important thing to Repukes is winning. Isn't that the way Donnie Two Shoes described K.'s confirmation? "It doesn't matter how we did it, we won!"

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They'd have to count them, ... aggiesal Oct 2018 #3

They can only count them if the votes haven't literally been "tossed out." LastLiberal in PalmSprings Oct 2018 #6

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True. With few exceptions, the press seems like Pavlovian stimulus-response machines. LastLiberal in PalmSprings Oct 2018 #10

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