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Originally Posted by thekremlin
I'm willing to bet that the majority of people who voted for him don't know a single thing about him, and don't care. No one thought he was going to be president, but voting for him was a form of protest against the two-party system. Maybe even 80% of his votes came from this? No idea. Not even saying there's anything wrong with that, because it is an effective form of protest. But for the most part, I wouldn't consider his votes "votes".
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Yes and no on AP's part. I'm familiar with him from his days as New Mexico's governor about as well as I can be familiar with him. I probably know more about his policy than I did about Romney. If Johnson, were on the republican ticket, I'd have voted for him still.
But at the same time I knew he had no shot and it was a protest in that sense. It absolutely was a none of the above in that sense. However, let's say Ron Paul, got the nomination for libertarian. I wouldn't want my throwaway vote confused as supporting Paul. Then I would have to go with a write in or whoever that chick was at the bottom of the selection.
A few days later I don't think a lot of the Republican pundits get it. They've completely pushed large groups of people away by being anti-gay, anti-choice, anti-mexican, anti-weed smokers, anti-birth control, etc. Just stay the fuck away from social and moral issues altogether. Don't touch them. Stay out of people's private lives. Quit creating a "creator vs. taker" mentality. It's the kid with the flame thrower standing around wondering why everything is on fire.
18 months ago on the local level all I heard was bullshit about natural born citizens and Obama isn't eligible and so on while he's fucking going on 3 years into the term. Anybody who suggested it was time to move on, was told not to let the door hit them in the ass. Now they lose the big general election and they still don't know why. One minute after going on about how Ronnie should be on Rushmore, the castigate a guy who isn't anti union enough to be judge. What the fuck does giving a shit about unions have to do with being a judge? Those judges who deal with such matters are appointed and not elected. Reagan couldn't get the nomination this year.
When they ran off fiscal conservatives who fall on the libertarian side of moral and social issues, they had a problem. A few years ago you had some of that tea party shiznit on the local level. Now I suspect folks just stayed the fuck away.
I get that most pundits are at first entertainers. Their job is to come up with something to bitch about for a few hours a day, every day. It's old, it's tiresome. Unfortunately, those who don't know that wresting is fake, think this real also. They also probably think that the SEC conference winner would easily make the playoffs in the NFL and maybe a deep run as well.