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2ndamendsis PO3
Joined: 08 Sep 2004 Posts: 288 Location: NJ
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Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 8:42 am Post subject: |
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NAVYX3 I've been wondering about that 100+% for several hours Crazy
PRESIDENT WILL BE MAKING A STATEMENT SHORTLY _________________ PROUD wife of Army ASA Vet - 66-70
mom of Sailor - Gulf 1
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GIaunt Seaman
Joined: 08 Oct 2004 Posts: 174
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Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 8:43 am Post subject: |
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New Mexico has a large number of absentee and early votes uncounted...
that's why they can't call it yet...
It is a small population in NM, so these votes could change the outcome |
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Hondo LCDR
Joined: 26 Aug 2004 Posts: 423 Location: USA
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Posted: Wed Nov 03, 2004 9:01 am Post subject: |
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A little history lesson, folks. There's a simple explanation for the 103% figure. This is a time-honored Democratic tradition.
It goes back to at least 1948 in south Texas. There, political opeative par excelance Tom Parr truly showed his influence in LBJ's campaign for the Democratic nomination for US Senator. His influence was such that in one south Texas county, the voter turnout rate was in excess of 98% - and in another, the dead literally voted.
IMO, this is the explanation for the 103% turnout in NM.
Yes - I'm joking about NM in 2004. I think the 103% figure is a clerical or arithmetic error.
Sadly, I'm not joking a bit about Tom Parr, LBJ, and 1948. See Robert Cato's Means of Ascent (volume 2 of his multi-volume bio of LBJ) for the riviting, filthy details. _________________ "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse."
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