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Why all the unreasonable demands? You can't really expect unicorns, rainbows or fair elections. (Original Post) Scuba Mar 2016 OP
In fact, just quit astrophuss42 Mar 2016 #1
F*ck that. The Velveteen Ocelot Mar 2016 #4
Why don:t you knock it off? Ed Suspicious Mar 2016 #10
I completely understand the upset in AZ giftedgirl77 Mar 2016 #2
Is someone whining about the Republican Candidates? JustAnotherGen Mar 2016 #3
don't know wanna ask John McCain PatrynXX Mar 2016 #6
This is just the way things are done, get used to it... Dont call me Shirley Mar 2016 #5
yeah PatrynXX Mar 2016 #7
This is the way things have always been done in the US. Orrex Mar 2016 #11
Losers gotta cheat. Liars gotta fib. Thieves gotta steal. Dont call me Shirley Mar 2016 #12
I'm not sure that it qualifies as cheating... Orrex Mar 2016 #13
Aye-Yiy-Yiy-Yiy-Yiy. Dont call me Shirley Mar 2016 #14
I'm only here so that I can have a foot in the door before the thread is locked. Orrex Mar 2016 #8
Fair elections are for other countries. blackspade Mar 2016 #9
 

giftedgirl77

(4,713 posts)
2. I completely understand the upset in AZ
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 11:07 AM
Mar 2016

but a petition to the NY Gov to try & change election laws just prior to the primary, in a closed primary nonetheless, way after the cutoff to change affiliation is just nonsense.

JustAnotherGen

(31,780 posts)
3. Is someone whining about the Republican Candidates?
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 11:08 AM
Mar 2016

We know they are awful - what is there to whine about? That's just fair analysis.

PatrynXX

(5,668 posts)
6. don't know wanna ask John McCain
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 12:09 PM
Mar 2016

if he's Republican or Democrat. should be interesting if he shows up as a democrat

Orrex

(63,172 posts)
11. This is the way things have always been done in the US.
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 12:17 PM
Mar 2016

And we've been used to it for over two centuries, alas.

Orrex

(63,172 posts)
13. I'm not sure that it qualifies as cheating...
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 12:26 PM
Mar 2016

They wrote the rules, after all.

It would be nice if the Founding Fathers had set up a democracy instead of this for-the-rich system that they put together.

blackspade

(10,056 posts)
9. Fair elections are for other countries.
Wed Mar 23, 2016, 12:16 PM
Mar 2016

Here in America we are supposed to check the box the pundits tell us to and then shut the fuck up.

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