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I wouldn’t be surprised if there were a group petitioning to get the Romney supporters banned as well.

Not so much. There are a few very aggressive Romney supporters who have been pretty abused with anti-Mormonism posts and such. I can think of two who might get banned. The rest of the small Mormon and non-Mormon supporters of Mitt just faded away, sick of the abuse. FR lost a chance, I think, to pick up Romney supporters here. But I know I wouldn't sign up here for a heaping helping of what they got every day, thread after thread.

They were building up nice threads, just to have them trashed endlessly and a stream of baiting posts in the hundreds or even the thousands. While I have no truck with Mormonism, I don't discriminate on theology (except against Islam which is an expansionist totalitarian ideology fundamentally opposed to Western values and which merely masquerade as a religion).

A lot of FReepers won't even set foot on the candidate threads. Any of them. You know, maybe it's just my recollection but I thought that JimRob handled the open primary in 2000 almost alone far better than our current mods do. And, believe me, I don't want their jobs. But JimRob had a kind of tough-but-fair, slug-it-out-but-no-below-the-belt style of modding this forum back in 2000. Not that that was perfect either because he did have to sleep and such. But there was less acrimony, much broader participation. Or that's the way I recall it. Frankly, I don't know how he managed to keep up with it so well back when FR seemed so much busier than it is now.

I thought that JimRob handled the open primary in 2000 almost alone far better than our current mods do

I don't think it's fair to compare the two situations.

In 2000 I can't even remember who else ran. We were too focused on ending the Clinton Administration.

We have a lot of candidates this time and no clear front runner.

The rest of the small Mormon and non-Mormon supporters of Mitt just faded away, sick of the abuse.

Spare us. There are a fair number of Romney supporters who have no problem trashing Fred every chance they get.

This is full-contact sport for now.