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Re: This Californian Has Voted. Have You?
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Wed, 8 Oct 2003 13:31:06 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Adrian Egli wrote:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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> > Out of curiosity, what led you to conclude that Arnold was the best qualified
> > candidate to head the world's fifth-largest economy?
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> Instinct. It's worked many times for me before.
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> Ok, before you hit me with a "Get real!" remark I was just plain sick of the
> usual politicians. I just wanted to try someone else.
I had a pain in my chest, and I was sick of all the usual doctors telling me
that it was lung cancer, so I went with my instinct and consulted a wealthy
actor rather than someone with experience in treating my ailment. I just wanted
to try someone else. Does that seem like a sensible course of a
I don't believe that you "*just* wanted to try someone else," because if that
were the case then you would have voted yes on the recall and picked Davis'
successor at random. Why didn't you pick Larry Flynt or Angelyne, for example?
They certainly qualify as "someone else" relative to the spectrum of "usual
politicians." Obviously something about Arnold appealed to on a level different
from what the other candidates had to offer. I'm asking what you think was the
source of that appeal.
> I was shown the blank side and so was the guy who asked me if it was "clear"
> and it was for less than 5 seconds. I really doubt that guy is going to have
> memorized what and who I voted for much less give a crap. Once it goes into
> that box it's over.
Was this a private consultation between you and the ballot-checker? What formal
documentation do you have that the ballot-checker actually filed your ballot
correctly for tallying? That is, if you were, say, of some particular race, or
rich or poor, or gay or straight, or a man or a woman, what formal guarantee do
you have that the ballot-checker didn't simply throw your ballot in the shredder
based on some subtle poll screening technique? You probably think I'm being
facetious, but I'm not. Worse election violations have occurred in the very
recent past, so the examples I propose are hardly vapid speculation.
For that matter, if you were "shown the blank side," how the heck do you even
know that it was your ballot?
Dave!
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| (...) I'll just take that as another sacarasm. (...) Again, I'm going to note Hardball on MSNBC. Arnorld has something no one else up there showed- charasima! If there is one thing I have seen all so often in this life (I was one of those teens who (...) (21 years ago, 8-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| (...) Instinct. It's worked many times for me before. Ok, before you hit me with a "Get real!" remark I was just plain sick of the usual politicians. I just wanted to try someone else. (...) I was shown the blank side and so was the guy who asked me (...) (21 years ago, 8-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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