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2016 Postmortem

MineralMan

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8. Well, that will probably be the outcome.

Reply to Txbluedog (Reply #6)

Thu Dec 1, 2016, 04:46 PM

Dec 2016

A terrible outcome, but probably what will happen.

Not enough Democrats in enough states voted for Hillary Clinton. We failed to elect her in November. Perhaps we'll learn from that, but I don't know any longer.

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We had an election. There was a candidate for both major parties. [View all] MineralMan Dec 2016 OP

Agree. Wellstone ruled Dec 2016 #1

I don't know. MineralMan Dec 2016 #5

Are they talking about that? Txbluedog Dec 2016 #2

Not they. We. MineralMan Dec 2016 #3

That's BS Txbluedog Dec 2016 #6

Well, that will probably be the outcome. MineralMan Dec 2016 #8

If we want to continue to call ourselves a democracy Txbluedog Dec 2016 #11

Well, that was the result of our partial democracy, anyhow. MineralMan Dec 2016 #13

I agree Txbluedog Dec 2016 #17

If, and that's a big IF, we could turn out the same MineralMan Dec 2016 #18

Why didn't people pull up their Ayn Rand bootstraps and sign onto her campaign? jake335544 Dec 2016 #19

god, I just looked at it !! pangaia Dec 2016 #10

That is lower than low that you would sneaky post a link to someone's thread just to shame them mtnsnake Dec 2016 #14

I did post in that thread. Linking to other threads on MineralMan Dec 2016 #15

Normal? Really? How would you like it if someone did that to you? mtnsnake Dec 2016 #20

People have linked to posts of mine many, many times. MineralMan Dec 2016 #21

No, it's just coming up occasionally in various fantasies Amishman Dec 2016 #4

:( SonofaFidel Dec 2016 #16

I agree. The precedent it would set would be disastrous for Democrats as well. jalan48 Dec 2016 #7

The precedent it would set is... Txbluedog Dec 2016 #9

Indeed. Why even hold an election in the first place, if MineralMan Dec 2016 #12