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ALL of the illegal votes were cast by Democrats. What do you not get about that?
Nobody cares about that but you. And how do you know they're all Democrats? Just because they voted in the Democratic primary doesn't make them Democrats. Remember Rush Limbaugh's "Operation Chaos?"
This is about McDaniel and Cochran, not the Democrats.
If the state of Mississippi had wanted to enforce this law, they probably should have done it in the first place (like Washington used to do when we had primaries). If you voted in one, and then went to the polling place to vote in the runoff after having already voted for the other party, your name would already be marked on the voter rolls as having voted, so you couldn't vote. You could challenge and get a provisional ballot, but if you did vote in the other party's primary previously, your vote would be tossed out. Mississippi doesn't do that (for whatever reason, although it seems pretty stupid to have this law you claim is so important and do absolutely nothing to enforce it at all). Their only recourse if they do find that enough invalid votes were cast to call the outcome of the election into question is to have a do-over.
I'm pretty sure you have no idea what you are speaking about or you are getting into some very scary territory. Please explain further.
I'm saying not distancing the GOP from the TP was a GOP mistake. We have always had more than two parties in the US, and I'd have welcomed the TP being able to do the same thing.
Yeah right, look at this forum the left has one side and there is hardly any debate between leftist posters. Pretty much party line lock step.
Oh well who am I to argue with your casual observation of an internet forum?
I guess I could point out that if the Democrats actually marched in lockstep, then the Senate Democrats would have gotten rid of the filibuster when they controlled both houses of Congress so Obama could have gotten every single thing he wanted passed with a simple majority vote, but they didn't. Like Bill Clinton's first two years as President and like Jimmy Carter's entire term, the biggest roadblock Obama faced in getting the entirety of his agenda passed was his own party.
That's pretty much all the evidence I need to prove that I'm right and you're not.
I'm saying not distancing the GOP from the TP was a GOP mistake. We have always had more than two parties in the US, and I'd have welcomed the TP being able to do the same thing.
There is no "Tea Party" to distance one from. Seems to me like you are calling for some kind of purity test or something. What are you going to do with someone who believes in a smaller government not in words only deciding to run as a Republican? Have them arrested?
ALL of the illegal votes were cast by Democrats. What do you not get about that?
You are making the assumption that there were illegal votes. No proof of that. Accusations, yes. Proof, no. But it would be interesting to see if election officials (with obvious Cochran ties) allowed improper voting.
Probably the best way for the state to settle this would be to have another election. Then the slime and mud would really come out, I'd look forward to that.
There is no "Tea Party" to distance one from. Seems to me like you are calling for some kind of purity test or something. What are you going to do with someone who believes in a smaller government not in words only deciding to run as a Republican? Have them arrested?
I'd be content with simple steps.no GOP Tea Party debates. TP wants one, have at it, with the RNC withholding future support for any attendees. Now let the candidates decide if they wish to attend.
This whole thread was started with a link to The National Report, an online spoof newspaper that is on par with The Onion. And the only other place any of this "breaking news" appears is on a right wing blog, The Gateway Pundit, which has posted this "news" without citing a single official source. Any other reference to this "breaking story" is just other right wing blogs picking up The Gateway Pundit story and reposting it.
Not a single real news source is reporting any of this, not a single official from Mississippi has made a statement, there isn't even a statement or press release from the McDaniel camp. Just one rightwing blog and a satire piece. In other words, there's no story here.
I'd be content with simple steps.no GOP Tea Party debates. TP wants one, have at it, with the RNC withholding future support for any attendees. Now let the candidates decide if they wish to attend.
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Sounds very odd. It would be very easy to find out who allowed them to vote that 2nd time.
OF course if it did happen then who did they vote for in the run-off? There is no proof of how an individual voted. Start tossing votes on this and all hell will break loose.
You all do realize that there were only Republican candidates, Cochran and McDaniel, available to vote for in the MS run-off. There was no Democratic run-off because Childers handily won that nomination. The only point of contention here is whether voters voted for whatever Democratic candidate on 6/3 and *then* voted in the Republican run-off, which is not legal. If a voter self-identifies as a Democrat, did not vote in the open primary on 6/3, and then voted on 6/24 in the Republican run-off, there is no harm, no foul That is all perfectly legal when such a voter lives in an open-primary state. If folks don't like that, whether in terms of principle or potential effects, then they should take the matter up with the state legislature and make arguments for closed primaries. Someone can correct me if I'm wrong, but IIRC, a few more than half of U.S. states including D.C. have closed primaries, so none of this would be an issue in any of those. The virtues of closed vs. open primaries, though, is a whole 'nother argument.
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