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Related: About this forum"The People Have Spoken": Sen. Warnock Wins in Georgia in Victory Over GOP Voter Suppression Efforts
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"The People Have Spoken": Sen. Warnock Wins in Georgia in Victory Over GOP Voter Suppression Efforts (Original Post)
Uncle Joe
Dec 2022
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Walleye
(42,768 posts)1. I think it was Adlai Stevenson, after losing an election that said
The people have spoken, the bastards. Politics was more fun back then
mitch96
(15,524 posts)2. What gets me is how close it was. How could people have voted for HW? it amazes me..nt
Uncle Joe
(63,377 posts)3. I believe it's from the extreme effects of tribalism
greatly magnified by the previous administration.
mitch96
(15,524 posts)4. non thinking zombie voters.. "vote red don't ask questions, got it?"...nt
Uncle Joe
(63,377 posts)5. That's it, when one's emotions goes through the roof,
logic, reasoning and any righteous sense of morals can easily fly out the window.
That's how we get road rage.
Rhiannon12866
(244,723 posts)6. It amazes me, too.
There was no comparison between these candidates, one has proven he's supremely qualified, the other barely knows what planet he's on...
mitch96
(15,524 posts)7. It seems to me that the repukes were trying to play the race card in this instance..
Hoping to garner some votes this way and tip the scales. My thought was that HW was just a puppet if he got in and his job was to "do what he is told".. uff
I wonder how many in the congress/senate are in this position.. just follow the party line and do what you are told..
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