#election2004

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For example, the 2004 convention featured as a star performer the African American gospel singer Donnie McClurkin, which was a perfect dog whistle, in that I only found his performance mentioned once in any news report, in one of those articles that are also requisite every four years about how obscure the entertainers the Republicans manage to draw to perform are, because all the truly famous singers are Democrats. No one outside the tribe for whom this dog whistle was intended heard it. None of the media bigfoots knew or are to point out that McClurkin was not obscure at all among evangelicals, who revered him for testifying two years earlier to how the scourge of pornography had “turned” him gay; or that not long before this performance he had gone on The 700 Club to reveal how homosexuals are “trying to kill our children.” There were no mainstream TV commentators explaining to the folks at home who just thought they were hearing a Black man with a decent voice surrounded by a clutch of children dressed in blindingly pure white that this was a symbol of the semiotics, then, of McClurkin’s crusade to protect the purity of all the little children from the diabolical snares of the homosexual recruiters. (“The gloves are off,” he had told The 700 Club. “And if there’s going to be a war, there’s going to be a war.”)

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Maybe worth noting that Democrats are 3-0 this century when they have a Black person on the ticket, and 0-3 when they don't. - Nate Silver Nov. 7th 2020 2000 Al Gore/Joseph Lieberman 2004 John Kerry/John Edwards 2008 Barack Obama/Joe Biden 2012 Barack Obama/Joe Biden 2016 Hillary Clinton/Tim Kaine 2020 Joe Biden/Kamala Harris #Election2020 #blackvotesmatter #blacklivesmatter #blackvotersmatter #joebiden #kamalaharris #hillaryclinton #timkaine #barackobama #johnkerry #johnedwards #algore #josephlieberman #election2016 #natesilver #election2012 #election2008 #election2004 #election2000 (at Portland, Oregon) https://www.instagram.com/p/CHXVHZxB_Nk/?igshid=168m6rtse2qn3

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முந்தைய லோக்சபா தேர்தல் முடிவுகள் (2004,2009,2014)

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[markstevena]

Disagree to Agree

'Disagree to Agree' by The Gad About Town. Thanks for reading-Mark. #elections #ElectionDay #Iowa #NewHampshire

“I am wrong about almost everything.”

“Heh. You’re right about that.”

* * * * If you are interested in the horse-race nature of American politics, the drop-everything-every-four-years-so-we-can-fill-all-the-jobs-in-Washington-DC portion of our public life, you could do no worse than live in either New Hampshire or Iowa for the entire year before Election Day. That means this year is a good year to…

[azspot]

John Kerry was the worst of them all. His entire candidacy was built upon a foundation of inauthenticity. The party sachems thought they were geniuses for boosting a Vietnam veteran to run against an incumbent president who avoided fighting in Vietnam. This was wartime, and the electorate was supposed to believe a warrior could fight wars better. Except, oops, framing Kerry as a warrior occluded the fact that he had also been, once upon a time, America’s most celebrated anti-warrior.

Say It to My Face

[azspot]

Kerry even enforced a version of his own self-censorship on the rest of the party: At the 2004 convention, criticizing George W. Bush by name was banned.

Say It to My Face

[azspot]

I was more angry the morning after the election in 04 than I was in 16.

Adam Kotsko

[azspot]

In 2000, if Gore had won the Electoral College while losing the popular vote, and if the GOP perceived that Democrats had a structural advantage that made a similar outcome likely in future presidential cycles, not only would Republicans have been agitating to get rid of the Electoral College, they would have browbeaten Democrats and the mainstream media into supporting the move. They've always been good at that, while Democrats and the media have always been fearful of being attacked by the GOP. If they were unable to prevent the electors from choosing Gore, they might have refused to certify the results of the electoral vote. Even if they didn't go that far, they would have made abolishing the Electoral College the #1 topic of conversation in D.C. throughout the transition and the first few months of the Gore presidency, painting opponents of change as haters of democracy. They also would have treated Gore as an illegitimate president, hamstringing him from Day One, using the circumstances of his victory as an excuse. It wouldn't be long before angry consumers of conservative media were bombarding Democrats in Congress with furious messages demanding the end of the Electoral College. Support for the status quo would be portrayed as left-wing extremism. The Electoral College would have been gone or neutralized by '04.

No More Mister Nice Blog

[azspot]

But despite the media blackout, indications continued to emerge that something deeply troubling had taken place in 2004. Nearly half of the 6 million American voters living abroad(3) never received their ballots -- or received them too late to vote(4) -- after the Pentagon unaccountably shut down a state-of-the-art Web site used to file overseas registrations.(5) A consulting firm called Sproul & Associates, which was hired by the Republican National Committee to register voters in six battleground states,(6) was discovered shredding Democratic registrations.(7) In New Mexico, which was decided by 5,988 votes,(8) malfunctioning machines mysteriously failed to properly register a presidential vote on more than 20,000 ballots.(9) Nationwide, according to the federal commission charged with implementing election reforms, as many as 1 million ballots were spoiled by faulty voting equipment -- roughly one for every 100 cast.(10)

[azspot]

What's wrong with this picture? These people should be working together, not fighting each other. None seems to know what a coordinated, disciplined, long-term progressive strategy on election infrastructure would look like; certainly, no one seems to be working toward one.

The Case of the Ohio Recount