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   Jeddidyah said, 8 months ago

   It is already decided, no matter what the trolls say about it.

   Obama 52%, willard 47%, Wankers 1% write in candidates.
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   narrowminded said, 8 months ago

   The problem isn’t the wankers it’s the fools voting Democrat.
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   Chillbilly said, 8 months ago

   On editorialcartoonists.com, the word a**hole was used instead of wankers. Does gocomics.com think we’re a bunch of children?
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   SwimsWithSharks said, 8 months ago

   Considering Ted’s politics most closely match the Green Party candidate, it looks like he’s putting himself firmly in the Wankers category.
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   cjr53 said, 8 months ago

   @Chillbilly

   Probably, and with some of the comments like this one from narrowminded: “The problem isn’t the wankers it’s the fools voting Democrat.” There is good reason to think that some of the posters are a bunch of children.
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   Jase99 said, 8 months ago

   Come on, Ted. There is a huge difference between independent voters and the so called undecided. One group chooses not to affiliate with a political party, the other can’t be bothered to give a #$% about the nation’s future.
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   the wolf said, 8 months ago

   Someone watched Idiocracy.
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   Ted Rall said, 8 months ago

   @Jase99

   Who mentioned independent voters? This is a swipe at (a) the outsized influence of swing voters and (b) the idea that anyone would still be confused about what to do this November. The choices are very, very clear.
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   dtriedel said, 8 months ago

   But I thought that a “wanker” was a . . . .
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    Dredpiraterobt$ said, 8 months ago

    The only surprising part of this is that everyone is doing the same thing.
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    If I recall, Bill Maher did it, SNL did it Ted Rall is doing it.
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    What’s also a little off putting is that Ted Rall has been the pot stirrer in this in that for the past “four” years he has been showing that Obama is not even less bad than the worst Republican. So for him to (you) say “the choices are very, very clear.” is disengenuous.
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    Chillbilly said, 8 months ago

    Panel #3 of this cartoon tells the whole story. The candidates pander to the least informed voters.
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    Independent voters in NY state are essentially disenfranchised because we can’t vote in primaries where all real electoral decisions are made. So I vote for third parties in the futile hope that one day long after I’m dead and gone …
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    Oh hell. Who am I kidding? We won’t just be a de facto plutocracy by then. We’ll be a total bona fide plutocracy.
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    SwimsWithSharks said, 8 months ago

    @Ted Rall

    
    Who mentioned independent voters?
    

    You did. Want us to change that to “Undecided”?

    
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    Donald Williams said, 8 months ago

    @Chillbilly

    On Rall’s page it’s that way, too (NOT “wankers”)!
    So, I guess this site is for kids.
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    mikefive said, 8 months ago

    @dtriedel

    Me. too.
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    Dredpiraterobt$ said, 8 months ago

    @Chillbilly

    “Independent voters in NY state are essentially disenfranchised because we can’t vote in primaries where all real electoral decisions are made.”
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    You’re not “disenfranchised” you have given your franchise away! (Been there, done that, learned my lesson, reregistered) Don’t blame anybody else.
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    Also, take comfort in the fact that “all real electoral” decisions are made in a smoky back room down to the VFW hall.
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    The nominating committee chooses who’s going to get the Party Nomination, and then the rank and file nominate him or her. Then the majority party elects the nominee (in rural NYS that usually means the Republican).
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    You’re not missing all that much. But you are missing some stuff. At least if you do vote in the primary then you can let the party know when they are getting too far to one side or the other. They’re more likely to hear a protest vote when it’s not confused with a general election vote.
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