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2016 Postmortem

Grey Lemercier

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24. Dems are great at nationwide POTUS elections. At state and local

Reply to uponit7771 (Reply #13)

Mon Nov 7, 2016, 12:57 PM

Nov 2016

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levels and midterms we get our arses handed to us at so many levels by the Rethug RW. They dominate governorships, state houses, and US House delgations, so they gerrymander and pull tens of thousands of micro and macro shenanigans. We have huge cities who are checked thusly at state level . Plus the small populated states, which are mostly hard red, have huge oversway nationally.

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FUCKIN WOW!!! ONLY ONE EARLY VOTING LOCATION IN CUYAHOGA COUNTY OHIO !!! [View all] uponit7771 Nov 2016 OP

Only one per county in OH Botany Nov 2016 #5

Per Roland there were a thousand people standing in line at one time in CUYAHOGA uponit7771 Nov 2016 #9

Those long lines are a good thing .... those are all "D" voters Botany Nov 2016 #14

But not if they can't vote cause there's 3999 other people in front of them... seen post 12. But yes uponit7771 Nov 2016 #16

I work voter protection in OH Botany Nov 2016 #22

OK... this is some good info... I'll update OP... thx uponit7771 Nov 2016 #27

Not really Maeve Nov 2016 #11

I voted at that old Kohl's last week. Botany Nov 2016 #17

NICE !!! I pray HRC whoops tRumps ass all up and down... I early voted in TX at 9:25 right after uponit7771 Nov 2016 #19

Glad to hear it Maeve Nov 2016 #23

really? Grey Lemercier Nov 2016 #12

Ah, that's it... I thought I heard a county but it was Cincinatti ... fuckin WOW!! Roland said 4000 uponit7771 Nov 2016 #15

CUYAHOGA COUNTY,Area: 1,246 mi�, Population: 1.263 million. one location is not enough, Sunlei Nov 2016 #18

Yeap, I'm just now seeing those numbers... they purposefully did this too for early voting... uponit7771 Nov 2016 #26

That is still not right. Election polling locations should be open per population of that Iliyah Nov 2016 #28

By law, the board building is the only place in any county where walk-in early voting is allowed. Grey Lemercier Nov 2016 #6

Yeap, prolly something pushed by republicans knowing all the county populations aren't the same the uponit7771 Nov 2016 #13

Dems are great at nationwide POTUS elections. At state and local Grey Lemercier Nov 2016 #24

your state republicans made the rule only one early vote location per county. Sunlei Nov 2016 #7

My brother voted in Ft. worth on Friday. displacedtexan Nov 2016 #21

In Florida that isn't the case either still_one Nov 2016 #8

+1, black votes could be up everywhere if the GOP wasn't supressing the votes in some way uponit7771 Nov 2016 #10

yep, we went from toiling outside in the cotton fields to toiling outside just to vote Grey Lemercier Nov 2016 #29

+1 uponit7771 Nov 2016 #30

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ still_one Nov 2016 #33

My daughters live in Florida--they were able to vote in their neighborhood Maeve Nov 2016 #25

Vote in local and State elections sharp_stick Nov 2016 #20

I hear you. It is the Local & State Republicans who repress our rights most of all. Sunlei Nov 2016 #31

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