Kentucky legitimately keeps sending him back. If he'd lost by a small margin in 84 they would have elected him next go round.

I can't explain it other than stupidity.

He only got close because of the Reagan landslide.

Had Huddleston been re elected then he would likely have continued to win as he got 61% of the vote on the previous election.

Had McConnell lost he wouldn't be "sent back" he would be an unknown County Commissioner.

If he wasn't elected in 84 he wouldn't have the lure of the incumbency he would have been the guy who lost in a Republican landslide.

better local and state election parameters in places they control so that voting 3rd party isn't a spoiler vote and isn't thrown away. Tactically I think its often problematic to vote 3rd party, but philosophically, its something that people have every right to do, and 2 parties shouldn't have a choke-hold on viable candidates. If we don't like spoilers, we should stop shaming them and try to change our voting process(first where we can) to something like runoff voting that eliminates that problem, but when's the last time you've heard any mainstream Democratic candidate advocate for something like that? The problem is the benefactors of a two-party system are those two parties, except of course, when somebody plays spoiler.

"Better election parameters"???? What does that even mean?? Some extra constitutional solution that exists in imaginary beer discussions.


In this election where the Democratic nominee takes 1 state and the District of Columbia. In Kentucky a very weak McConnell [b [/b. underperforms Reagan by 20% and 270,000 .

The only way McConnell wins is by professional ratfucking by buying the corrupt SWP to run and pull the half percent that will make a difference.

In 2016 Trump camaign hires them to try discredit Dems in Chicago.

The fundamental problem in modern US politics is that there is a bedrock racist, mysoginistic, anti poor, anti BLGTQ, block of 40-50 million and we need every progressive/Democratic to row in the same direction and not engaging in self centered, self promoting, self aggrandizing political masturbation.

"imaginary beer" discussion.

http://prospect.org/article/would-instant-runoff-voting-cure-what-ails-american-politics.


The fundamental problem in America is that there are forces that have been working for a long time to mold or freeze people into those racist misogynistic, anti poor...etc. cubby holes. Because it makes them pliable. The problem is almost everybody with power does not like ceding that power, and that also goes with the Democratic Party, which could absolutely make instant-runoff voting part of its platform, and could absolutely usher it in in states we control. Which would entirely eliminate spoilers, and would take a lot of wind out of the sails of a protest vote, or conversely, would allow the protest vote and simultaneously account for the pragmatic vote.

the SWP to conclude trump isn't a dumb stupid fascist who turned out to be under vladmirputin's thumb.

What do they have to say about that.. ".. no ultra right party in the US.." now?

trump is the anti-Christ. Too bad the Democrat didn't win back in 1984 and maybe we would have had a chance not to have this Russian asshole asset as the heinous majority asshole now.

It's too weird it happened in 1984 and here we are getting piled on by the Fascist Big Brother.. working hard to make sure we continue Living our Worst Nightmares.