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Palin goes 0 for 2 in Alaska as clout disappears nationally
The Sacramento Bee ^ | Published: Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2014 - 10:29 am | Sean Cockerman

Posted on 08/21/2014 2:15:58 PM PDT by bigdaddy45

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To: BurningOak

And I’m in a state that has runoffs, and I really do not like these races where there is no runoff, especially one with that split among three candidates: 40%/32%/25%.

No way can it be said with confidence that Sullivan is the clear choice of those who voted. 25% is a big chunk of the voters who might have gone either way in a runoff.


41 posted on 08/21/2014 2:56:06 PM PDT by Will88
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To: VRWC For Truth

you are quite wrong

the poster is solid GOPc


42 posted on 08/21/2014 2:57:30 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: VRWC For Truth
That poster is a GOPe lover. No different than a DemocRat.

Yup.

But everytime they post something that is lacking in either reason, evidence, or adherence to conservative principle, they need to be corrected.
43 posted on 08/21/2014 2:59:15 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: bert; VRWC For Truth
the poster is solid GOPc

And as such, is lacking in any really valid or worthwhile principal.
44 posted on 08/21/2014 3:01:07 PM PDT by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: Will88

Well, we also had the cluster shmuck in Mississippi with the runoff, so I am mixed on them.


45 posted on 08/21/2014 3:01:26 PM PDT by BurningOak (Live Free or Die)
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To: bigdaddy45

She was wrong on the Tax issue. Too many Alaskans are what I have read here, “Redneck socialists.” Hate the government, but give me my dang permanent fund money!
Doing business in Alaska is extremely hard and expensive, raping oil companies is not going to help things become more productive.
She endorsed Joe Miller too late. I think it really bumped him up in the votes, but it was just too late. Miller got all sorts of endorsements in the last week before the voting. Palin, Levin, pro-life groups, all in the last week.


46 posted on 08/21/2014 3:01:48 PM PDT by vpintheak (I will not comply!)
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To: bert

Really, how come your alleged GOPc buds keep voting and acting like DemocRats? Not ONE DIME’s worth of difference between your GOPc and the DemocRats. Begone, loser.


47 posted on 08/21/2014 3:03:36 PM PDT by VRWC For Truth (Roberts has perverted the Constitution)
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To: bigdaddy45

Don’t blame SP—most voters are ash holes anyway even on the GOP side.


48 posted on 08/21/2014 3:06:37 PM PDT by tflabo (Truth or tyranny)
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To: bigdaddy45

For later


49 posted on 08/21/2014 3:06:38 PM PDT by Doctor 2Brains
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To: bigdaddy45; KC_Lion

Willard (Romney).

Is this you?

Still dreaming that you can beat Hillary, ain’t you?


50 posted on 08/21/2014 3:09:11 PM PDT by Sir Napsalot (Pravda + Useful Idiots = CCCP; JournOList + Useful Idiots = DopeyChangey!)
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To: bigdaddy45

I’ll follow her lead anywhere.


51 posted on 08/21/2014 3:10:17 PM PDT by McGruff (You can lead a human to knowledge but you can't make him think)
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To: BurningOak; onyx; KC_Lion

52 posted on 08/21/2014 3:11:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself.)
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To: bert

A+Bert ?


53 posted on 08/21/2014 3:15:08 PM PDT by corkoman
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To: BurningOak
Well, we also had the cluster shmuck in Mississippi with the runoff, so I am mixed on them.

That was a very unusual election where the leader was so close to 50%, with only three candidates in the race. But, overall, runoffs give the voters a far better opportunity to pick a candidate closest to their views on the issues.

The worst examples of no runoffs are presidential primaries where candidates win states with barely 30% of the vote and then can win the nomination with around 35% of the vote (at the point the winner was obvious, not the final vote including all states).

54 posted on 08/21/2014 3:21:48 PM PDT by Will88
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To: BurningOak

Maybe if the GOP hadn’t worked hand-in-hand with the Democrats dating all the way back to the deliberate strategy of bankrupting her family and tarnishing her name with the provocative headlines those phony lawsuits engendered, she’d have had a half a chance of being the candidate you seem to think she should have been.

And until Tucson, I think she was going to run…and win.

I think Tucson changed everything. She no longer trusted most of those that she had once assumed she could trust after they clearly showed the eagerness to “finish her off” politically. Fox News became far more of a wishy-washy platform for moderates than a soapbox for conservatives, probably sensing that there would be consequences if they didn’t betray conservatives.

And so we got stuck with Mitt. If it makes you feel good to blame Sarah Palin for that knock yourself out. But for my money, no one running in 2012 had what it took to win against Obama. And I have yet to see anyone aside from Ted Cruz who can do it this year. And the GOP would rather lose to Hillary than allow Cruz to win.


55 posted on 08/21/2014 3:21:49 PM PDT by palin45potus
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To: bigdaddy45

Cockerman ? Sounds right.


56 posted on 08/21/2014 3:28:22 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: BurningOak
"Instead she resigned from her governorship (why? A disastrous political move),"

Trollbait.

57 posted on 08/21/2014 3:29:19 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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To: corkoman; SoConPubbie; wally_bert; razorback-bert; dalebert; rahbert

-——A+Bert ?——

of course not.....nor am i wally-bert, razorback bert, dalebert, nor rahbert

I am the original bert. bert’s are fantastic freepers

i am an observer that describes what I see, a wide view. some are blind or view things through a paper towel tube and can’t properly discern the reality.

I have coined the term GOPc to describe the conservative majority that will likely control the new congress


58 posted on 08/21/2014 3:31:13 PM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12 ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: palin45potus

Couldn’t have said it better myself.

Only to add that after Tucson, when the media went into its most vile and incendiary character-assassination I’ve ever witnessed in my life, practically dumping the murdered bodies right on her doorstep, coupled with her fellow GOP-er’s cowardly deserting her in droves, unwilling to provide even modest vocal objections to this “blood libel,” Palin’s approval ratings had cratered to around 28% to 29%.

Difficult position to recover from and mount a campaign.


59 posted on 08/21/2014 3:32:44 PM PDT by greene66
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To: bigdaddy45

Bless her heart, I think she’d be a great Senator or President if she could get in, but I don’t see her ever getting elected to any public office again. Just not in the cards.


60 posted on 08/21/2014 3:36:01 PM PDT by mtrott
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