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Something's fishy in this state, too

flotson — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 19:22:39 -0800

Very, er, unusual voting results in Alaska. This Huffington Post article describes seriously, seriously fishy results in Tuesday's election in Alaska. The Alaska Division of Elections is reporting the lowest voter turnout in Alaska's history, for one. (Despite, for example, large increases in voter registration, primary voting, and the largest ever turnout of early voters.)

"Democrats, do you want this primary season to be over, or do you want it to be hilarious?"

jonp72 — Mon, 14 Jan 2008 19:02:15 -0800

Michigan Democrats for Romney is an effort by mischievous Michigan Democrats to take advantage of the uncompetitive January 15th "beauty contest" primary on the Democratic side by encouraging Democratic voters to vote for Mitt Romney in the Republican primary so that Romney won't drop out of the primary race after making his last stand in Michigan. Similar hijinks by Michigan Republicans in 1972 led to George Wallace's victory in the Democratic presidential primary that year.

Iraq? Turkey? Ah, who cares, they're all Ay-rabs anyway...

kgasmart — Wed, 29 Mar 2006 09:54:55 -0800

Baghdad is calm, except it's neither. So this guy Howard Kaloogian is running for Congress in California, and he supports the troops. Thinks they're making all sorts of progress that simply isn't reported by the evil lib'rul mainstream media, so he went to see Baghdad for himself, and posted a picture of a calm Baghdad street - See? No terrorists here! Except that certain sleuthing types found something awfully fishy about that photo...

Howard Dean Assassination

mecran01 — Sat, 24 Jan 2004 09:05:45 -0800

Whatever happened to Howard Dean? "He was assassinated by Bill and Hillary with the assistance of Chris Lehane, the political hit man who first worked for Kerry and now backs Clark.
Desperate to keep control of the Democratic Party, the Clintons used their negative researchers and detectives to the ultimate and generated a story-a-day savaging Dean. The Vermont governor, not ready for prime time, cooperated by being thin-skinned, surly and combative. "
caveat: I'm not trolling, but as a democrat I find this interesting. Ok, nauseating.

dchase — Tue, 26 Mar 2002 20:37:35 -0800

Do you want to eat horses or do you wish to marry someone of the same sex. Or something like that. I don't know. I'm confused. Are people pro horse-meat or anti-gay? What does this say about those of us in the Commonwealth that shop at Walmart? Where's Catherine the Great when you need her!

palegirl — Fri, 27 Oct 2000 13:01:47 -0800

a GOP group is airing pro-Nader ads in critical battleground states in which he is threatening a gore victory.
that is all.

owillis — Wed, 18 Oct 2000 15:54:40 -0800

Those conservative Republicans... Really classy guys.