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To: Impy
Yeah it was a mess. I don't know who Tommy was running against though. He could've been splitting a vote from a good person. Tommy's name should've pulled in more I would think.

Tommy made mistakes that seems clear.

150 posted on 05/28/2019 8:10:52 AM PDT by Steve Van Doorn (*in my best Eric Cartman voice* 'I love you, guys')
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To: Steve Van Doorn

Just because someone is passionate about an issue, doesn’t make them a good politician.


151 posted on 05/28/2019 8:12:14 AM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Steve Van Doorn

For EU elections they use regional constituencies. Robinson ran in North West England, which elects 8 members. They use party list proportional representation, you vote for the party and if they get say 50%, they’d get 4 seats.

To have gotten elected as an Indie, Robinson would have needed at least about 8% they said. Doesn’t look like not running with UKIP made a difference though, UKIP got 3.6% and Robinson alone got 2.2% so enough combined they wouldn’t have cut it.

It’s unfortunate that Brexit Party and UKIP couldn’t reconcile.


153 posted on 05/31/2019 4:23:23 AM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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