Daily Archives: November 8, 2012

It's actually not that uncommon for dead candidates to win elections, including…

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It's actually not that uncommon for dead candidates to win elections, including two local officials in Florida and Alabama this week. Former Missouri governor even when a US senate race in 2000 weeks after dying in a plain crash. However, when it happens they generally were alive during at least part of the campaign. 

Charles Darwin has been dead for 130 years and yet he still managed to garner 4,000 write-in votes in Athens-Clarke county Georgia against Rep. Paul C. Broun, R-Ga who ran unopposed. 

Darwin outperforms on ballot
Georgia voters protested an anti-science incumbent by writing-in the father of evolution

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Karl Rove has a lot of nerve accusing dems of suppressing the vote through negative… 1

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Karl Rove has a lot of nerve accusing dems of suppressing the vote through negative ads.  GOP legislatures and governors all over the country have been actively working to suppress the vote through much more overt measures for years. 

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Karl Rove says Obama won "by suppressing the vote"

Karl Rove: Obama Succeeded ‘By Suppressing The Vote’
Karl Rove told Fox News’ Megyn Kelly on Thursday that President Obama won re-election “by suppressing the vote” with negative campaign ads that “turned off” potential voters, citing a victory that ca…

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I think it might be too late for such a strategy to work for the GOP :) 5

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I think it might be too late for such a strategy to work for the GOP 🙂

Republicans Consider Welcoming People Who Believe in Math and Science
After disappointing results in Tuesday’s election, Mr. Priebus said that it was time for Republicans to become “more tolerant of those with a math and science lifestyle.”


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“After this election, Florida is worse than a laughingstock,” Billy Corben, a… 2

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“After this election, Florida is worse than a laughingstock,” Billy Corben, a Miami documentary filmmaker and avid election night Twitter user, said with a smile. “We’re now an irrelevant laughingstock.”

We've been doing this for more than two centuries, why do we still have such a hard time getting it right?

Florida’s Votes Unclaimed, but Less Depends on Them
Just as in the 2000 presidential election, the results of Florida’s voting were still up in the air the day after Election Day. The difference is that in 2012 it doesn’t matter.


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