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When you have to waffle around about whether out of 47% of the electorate you could find at least 2% Republicans, you're really, really desperate.

I understand Reagan's 11th commandment, but this is a local race and I'm registered as an Independent. I voted for Talent, the Republican candidate and he lost, by less than 2%. There were more than enough Republicans in that 47% to get him another 2% and they stayed home. If they do it again, it's going to happen again. Figure it out or get used to losing.

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When you have to waffle around about whether out of 47% of the electorate you could find at least 2% Republicans, you're really, really desperate.
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If you would stop wasting our time trying to win an argument and just try to understand what I'm saying we might have a productive conversation. My point remains that you can't productively analyze the logic of a factual occurrence by interjecting hypotheticals. If you would simply admit that logically, if the LIBertarians had voted for republicans they would have beaten the dems we could then move to the more hypothetical issues. The truth of the analysis of the LIBertarian vote, might also apply to the conservative vote, and the catholic vote and many other groups. We can analyze that with hard voting data. The reasons why some republicans, conservatives, catholics and yes LIBertarians just refused to vote at all are also important issues . They just can't be as easily analyzed. There is no single reason why 47% of the voters stayed home, in fact a 53% turnout in a non presidential year is pretty good and also should be analyzed. To make such a simplistic statement as " There were more than enough Republicans in that 47% to get him another 2% and they stayed home. If they do it again, it's going to happen again. Figure it out or get used to losing." is not productive merely vindictive and superficial. '08 has many variables that differ from '06, among them, Presidential vote, presidential candidate selection,changing economic conditions, possibility of terrorist attack in US, war with iran and/or syria, and many more. Please give some thought to what you are saying and doing on this website, while some people are simply here to criticize or argue, many others use it as a source of knowledge, ideas and communication. Nice talking to you.