He’d have to be bigger. Like Sgt Preston, now there was a husky fucker.
Please tell me “husky” is being used as an adjective and not a noun :eek:
Good one!
And that he was born in Canada?
…yah know America, this kinda thing is really not cool.
Really: not cool. Its a problem not unknown to the relevant authorities, because 3 days earlier:
Holy fucking shit. Many people struggle to use cellphones. How can you have voting machines that fail such a simple user-interaction test? When people have to click through 16 pages are they always going to wait until the entire page has refreshed?
And it isn’t even a new problem.
Its incredible that so many in America are happy to fight for ways of “combating voter fraud” (and those ways are often to enable voter suppression) but are so unconcerned that the technology used to register those votes are so fatally flawed. An electronic warning is the very least they could do.
Yep, that’s the kind of machine they have at my polling place (Tarrant County). I am always careful to make sure the final screen shows my correct choices, but it’s ridiculous that this kind of thing can happen. And there is no paper ballot at all–it’s completely electronic.
You know, I knew nothing about this “voter malfunction” thing when I went and voted. But after fast forwarding through 16 pages (because I voted straight blue), I started to get paranoid that maybe I clicked something wrong when I was FF’ing through all the pages. I made DAMN sure Beto was selected on that last screen.
Glad I did.
Until or unless voting officials fix it, it looks like the only way around it would be to avoid the straight-party ticket and simply individually select each voting option one by one.
Yeah, though I think you can still have problems even then if you don’t let each screen fully load or if you accidentally hit the enter button while scrolling.
The media has treated Beto like a rock star, something they never do for Republicans. Which is good, because it’s meant Democratic donors have poured money into a race they probably won’t win, making other Democrats that could win their races more vulnerable. So carry on, media!
Maybe no Republican has what it takes to appear like a Rock Stare. However, surely you recall the faux-Republican Trump in 2016 getting wall-to-wall coverage by almost all media outlets.
Getting lots of coverage is something any candidate can do if they are interesting. The media doesnt’ discriminate when it comes to getting eyeballs. They’ll cover whoever is most interesting. But Trump coverage was very negative.
Yes, because Trump is very negative.
So negative it propelled him into the White House, right? :rolleyes:
Does that mean factual? If so, what’s your beef?
Bolding added.
But really, how would you report objectively and factually about Trump *without *portraying him negatively?
The money that Beto has received wasn’t from some big pot of money that now won’t be used for other races. A lot of it is from people who haven’t donated before but then were inspired by Beto. If there was just some average candidate running in his place, all that money wouldn’t be going to other candidates, it just wouldn’t be donated.
Also, if anything I’m guessing Beto will help Texas house races. I don’t know if there’s a way to track this, but I’m guessing more than a few people might have stayed home except now they are motivated to get out and vote for Beto, and while they are voting for him they’ll vote for other Dems. Beto has also campaigned and appeared with some other candidates.
And regardless of if he wins or loses, I’m guessing some more candidates will look at how he raised so much money without taking any PAC money and will do the same. He’s not just getting money because he’s getting media attention, he’s getting media attention because there are a lot of things people like about him, and him not accepting PAC money is one thing, and so people who like him give him money,
Also, I’m guessing not much Democratic money is being spent on Beto that would otherwise be spent on other Democratic races, but I’m pretty sure a good amount of Republican money is being spent on Cruz that Republican donors never thought they’d have to spend in Texas, and that they otherwise would have been spending on other races. It’s hard to compare things from year to year and race to race perfectly, but according to OpenSecrets.org it looks like for the 2014 race John Cornyn raised $17.2M and spent $14.6M, while Ted Cruz for this race has raised $40.1M and spent $33.9M. I don’t know if that’s draining enough from other races to make a difference but I’m guessing it hurts the Republicans.
Considering Ford and his political leanings and Notley and her political leanings, that’s not as true as it used to be. And I’ve been known to say it myself.
The people who say this, have any of them actually been to Texas? I have some complicated feelings about my native land, but I’m quite sure one Texas is enough. Maybe Australia is the Texas of the Pacific, because that’s where spiders eat Volkswagens.