I remember way back when reality TV shows like Survivor were a new hit sensation, someone was trying to organize a reality competition show to pick a candidate for president. Nothing ever came of it I guess.
Or did it?
I’m pretty sure he’s too late to get his name on the ballot. The deadline for a write-in candidate was day before yesterday, and any other sort of candidate would have to have started a lot earlier.
According to the Colorado Statesman article linked to in the HuffPo link, the current candidate would withdraw, and Higgins would be appointed by a vacancy committee.
Now you have me confused. How can there be a deadline for a write-in candidate? A write-in candidate is one whose name is written in by the voter on the blank line at the bottom. The deadline for that is November 8th.
In some states, there is a requirement that any person must file an ‘Affidavit of Candidacy’ before votes for them are counted. (Voters can still write in any name they want, but only those for registered candidates will be counted.)
This is a measure intended to save costs to the taxpayers of the state – it means they don’t have to put in the time & effort & expense of counting all the votes for “Mickey Mouse” & “Donald Duck”, etc. Also makes the results available a lot faster than if they had to wait to tally all those irrelevant votes.
Even in some states without such a law, it’s often done that way in practice. If the total number of write-in votes is less than the difference between the winner and the second place candidate, the officials counting votes may not take the time to look at every write-in and tally the count for each individual name. The official total just gives a number for “Other Write Ins”.
Ah, Republicans are such delicate flowers.
Gamer buddy of mine. Was never really on my radar as a bigot until about a year and a half ago when he got laid off and had employment issues. He started making small but angry comments on facebook things. Petty racism, Clinton Hysteria.
Also didn’t impress me by being near suicidal this spring because he was having an affair with a married woman (yeahno) and she decided to stay with her husband.
Well, earlier today a mutual friend posted a thing about how long the Republicans have been investigating Hillary and come up empty every time. Butthurt boy compares her to OJ and buying justice. I post back a simple comment that she’s been being investigated for 24 years and now with zero results, so we’re kinda into “fucking knock it off” territory.
And the whining begins. I’m attacking him. I’m a Democrat so of course I’m defending her. Then complains about liberals always trying to make people be like them. Defriends both me and the mutual friend.
:eek::rolleyes:
Heh, turns out he was feeling sensitive and put-upon because he’d posted some racist jokes on his page a bit earlier in the day, someone made a comment about it and he deleted the posts.
Poor little martyr.
I posted this in another thread, but it may better belong here.
An article linked to indirectly in a recent post does a good job of synopsizing Hatred of all things Hillary:
Get it? The haters aren’t sure whether she’s clever or clueless, too soft-hearted or too hard-hearted; they just know they have to hate.
Similarly with Obama. Let’s hate him for keeping promises and hate him for breaking them; hate him by pretending he supports Islamist terrorism but also hate him for killing terrorists with drones.
At this point, if it turns out Hillary really was the Zodiac Killer after all, I wouldn’t click the news-link. The irrational haters have been shrieking “Wolf!” for too long.
Reince Priebus: Trump never said that the story about Cruz’s father being involved in the JFK assassination was true.
Nah, bro, I’ll have a uniform. They’ll give me the benefit of the doubt 35 times in a row.
This is way better than the previous “just asking questions” strategery. Now we can say anything at all, no matter how vile and untruthy, and just walk it back with: “Well I didn’t say it was true, I just threw it out there. If people believe it, that’s on them.”:mad:
There’s precedent. John Kyl, 2011, who claimed on the floor of the US Senate that “well over 90% of what Planned Parenthood does is abortions”. When called on it later, he claimed his remark was “not intended to be a factual statement”.
I’m sick of newbies dropping by the political process for the first time this year. From the Bernie Bros to Trump and his supporters, they have no idea how anything works and how they can make it work for them. “But I’m young,” a hipster in his twenties may claim. Young? In 1964 I sat through BOTH conventions, gavel to gavel, and I was TEN! (It was either that or trying to catch up with Modern Math for my new school. I still prefer politics.) I wasn’t yet in sixth grade and I already knew more about How Shit Works than them, from the fight over the Dems’ Mississippi delegation to the battle between Goldwater Republicans and Rockefeller Republicans and an endless speech by the future host of Death Valley Days that he repeated until he could no longer speak. I paid my dues. You can pay yours.
Virginia state Sen. Dick Black said that the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton are using immigration to commit “ethnic cleansing” :
Yes, if my calculations are correct, we only need to import about 230 million more Muslims before the Christians are outnumbered. I love it when a plan comes together.
ETA: Mwahahaha.
We could annex Canada. There’s about 50-60 million there already, right?
We tried that once or twice before, and it didn’t work out so well.
Hey, we already have Minnesota. The American Canada.
Geez, American Conservative Christianity is slowly but surely becoming nothing more than an apocalyptic death cult.