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2016 Postmortem

MineralMan

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18. If, and that's a big IF, we could turn out the same

Reply to Txbluedog (Reply #17)

Thu Dec 1, 2016, 04:23 PM

Dec 2016

percentages of Democrats in 2017 and 2018 for local and statewide elections as we got in 2016, we'd win going away and regain seats. However, our history as Democrats shows that we don't bother with odd-year and mid-term elections. I'd like to work on changing that.

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We had an election. There was a candidate for both major parties. [View all] MineralMan Dec 2016 OP

Agree. Wellstone ruled Dec 2016 #1

I don't know. MineralMan Dec 2016 #5

Are they talking about that? Txbluedog Dec 2016 #2

Not they. We. MineralMan Dec 2016 #3

That's BS Txbluedog Dec 2016 #6

Well, that will probably be the outcome. MineralMan Dec 2016 #8

If we want to continue to call ourselves a democracy Txbluedog Dec 2016 #11

Well, that was the result of our partial democracy, anyhow. MineralMan Dec 2016 #13

I agree Txbluedog Dec 2016 #17

If, and that's a big IF, we could turn out the same MineralMan Dec 2016 #18

Why didn't people pull up their Ayn Rand bootstraps and sign onto her campaign? jake335544 Dec 2016 #19

god, I just looked at it !! pangaia Dec 2016 #10

That is lower than low that you would sneaky post a link to someone's thread just to shame them mtnsnake Dec 2016 #14

I did post in that thread. Linking to other threads on MineralMan Dec 2016 #15

Normal? Really? How would you like it if someone did that to you? mtnsnake Dec 2016 #20

People have linked to posts of mine many, many times. MineralMan Dec 2016 #21

No, it's just coming up occasionally in various fantasies Amishman Dec 2016 #4

:( SonofaFidel Dec 2016 #16

I agree. The precedent it would set would be disastrous for Democrats as well. jalan48 Dec 2016 #7

The precedent it would set is... Txbluedog Dec 2016 #9

Indeed. Why even hold an election in the first place, if MineralMan Dec 2016 #12