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2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Lawrence, LAWRENCE! I love ya, man... but REALLY? [View all]ffr
(22,665 posts)15. He said what?
No. No. No.
M$M is all about TV ratings and advertising revenue. MSNBC does fine work the rest of the year, but their encouragement to Democrats to peel votes off, after all the hard grassroots work we're doing, is sickening.
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We need as many votes in the blue states to win a popular vote as well as electoral vote victory.
WI_DEM
Oct 2012
#1
You're right -- we seem to have been talking about this in terms of one OR the other --
gateley
Oct 2012
#52
Agreed. It's not good to take the efforts of others with a free ride on their work. It's just plane
patrice
Oct 2012
#7
Lawrence just showed the "537 Votes" from the Obama Campaign. It made me angry at the '00 election..
AaronMayorga
Oct 2012
#16
To be fair, he did say you'd be crazy to do so in a battleground state, citing Nader in FL in
Grown2Hate
Oct 2012
#19
That doesn't matter. You NEVER see 3rd party out doing the actual grunt work of
patrice
Oct 2012
#33
Agree, however they don't even care about the votes, they just want some financial support. n/t
FSogol
Oct 2012
#46
It's frustrating; they think being more or less right is all that it takes & if they work with
patrice
Oct 2012
#47
Just let the popular vote go to a Republican loser in the Electorial College.
gordianot
Oct 2012
#12
Impressive. I'd say that's a good start. It will take YEARS to get viability in statewide/national
Grown2Hate
Oct 2012
#18
Democrats ARE better. When it comes to the nuts and bolts of how things happen. Green is out in lala
patrice
Oct 2012
#34
unless we have instant runoff voting, third parties are pointless and self-defeating
Adenoid_Hynkel
Oct 2012
#27
Let's HOPE they're trying to motivate us to get our asses out and vote? (at least Rachel... don't
Grown2Hate
Oct 2012
#30
It's actually BAD for 3rd parties. We agree with their platforms, but they themselves are parasites
patrice
Oct 2012
#38
We didn't just shoot ourselves in the foot; we shot ourselves in the head.
southerncrone
Oct 2012
#42
In that case of course you can't vote Democrat and have to choose the best candidate that is running
drm604
Oct 2012
#49
Keep in mind he's not a Democrat, he's a practical European socialist or whatever.
tarheelsunc
Oct 2012
#41
I watch LO sporadically. Can't take the nightly Rush clips. What's that all about?
Tarheel_Dem
Oct 2012
#51