The election was yesterday and yard signs are still planted all over the state like gravestones. Our two local school referendum passed so that’s good for us and Tater-tot’s kids. I’m glad those blasted automated campaign calls will stop and my junk mail quotient will decrease by half.
I don’t think there were any huge surprises. We know a guy that ran as a democrat in this primary and publicized that he was pro-life, he got pummeled (34%). I think it was clearly because he stood in front a room full of Democratic women and proclaimed his pro-life stance. The position he was vying for doesn’t have anything to do with abortion legislation which makes his proclamation purely foolish in my opinion. It would be like running for dog catcher in a room full of animal lovers and promising that you will support assault rifles for hunting deer.
What do you think? Are you a Democrat? Do you consider yourself pro-choice? Would you vote for a pro-life Democrat? Do you think it would’ve been ethical for him to keep his trap shut if the position doesn’t have anything to do with the issue and nobody asked him? Or does the possibility of electing someone to dog catcher automatically make them a possible future candidate for Governor and these things should be know ahead of time?
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I am pretty apolitical, but I think it would piss me off if a candidate threw a non-issue into an electoral race just to get votes. Or even if that wasn't the motivation, it's irrelevant. Kind of like opponents raising personal issues that aren't germaine to the job at hand.
Yeah, all I could think when he said it was "Why did you have to offer that info up? You just told half this room not to vote for you."
well I'm not American and if I were, I'd probably be a Republican...also, I resist labels like pro-choice and pro-life...I'm intuitively opposed to abortion, but I try to see the complexity of the issue. anyway, I think it's foolish to go out on a limb on a polarizing issue when there is no need for people to know it. and if you have your eye on bigger things, better not leave a trail of controversial statements.
surprise, surprise: this journalist votes democrat, pro-choice. but not every time. glenn poshard ran as a dem for gov, and he was more "republican" than democrat, so i voted for george ryan (oops, sorry about that scandal).
i also voted for tommy thompson when i lived in wis.
this fall will be interesting: both the dem and the gop guv candidates are pro-choice, so topinka could topple blago with the female vote.
I am a Democrat.
Enough said.
Ooooo. I am a LIBERAL democrat. Like Way far over there? The ones that Oreilly rants about? The hippies, leftist intellectual elite socialist tofu eating, inter race loving Democrats? Mmmmm yeah. Thats me.
P.s. I have terrorists living in my basement so I can offer them aid and comfort.
(ATTENTION FBI - this was a joke.)
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