It was a barn burner.

Columbia Township, Brooklyn, Michigan.
6:30 pm.
I was one of 3 (three) people at the polling place. Yeah. We're rural but not boonies.
Asked those who were there about attendance and was told it was very low.
Had the absolutely wonderful display by another attendee telling her young children who were with her.......
"We always vote republican."
Democracy at it's finest.

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Lily O Lady's picture

bleed into other states.

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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"

I’ll be interested to see how bad the turnout was, when the dust settles. Seems like a perfect storm of Joementum and pandemic panic to really depress turnout.

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Idolizing a politician is like believing the stripper really likes you.

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@Dr. John Carpenter
that the virus kept people away.
This is a heavily republican area and no republican worries about who will be on the ballot in Novemeber.
I can also say without a doubt that they will be out in force come the presidential election.
Even with an economic downturn, they will support trump steadfastly.
Most of the progressives such as myself in this area, have given up on the democratic party.
What's to vote for? Not trump?

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@Pricknick

turn on Trump if the economy is bad. He fails to see the fanaticism these people have which is just like the fanaticism for Biden/vote blue no matter who.

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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"

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@Lily O Lady

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@Lily O Lady that could overcome Trump worship it's the pocketbook, or loss of a job.

And you don't need a majority to switch or not vote for Him. Just enough will do, and he will be toast.

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@wokkamile

fanatically loyal. They love how Trump taunts liberals and makes them sad. And I don’t think they’ll blame him for the economy. He’ll make excuses and his fans (short for fanatic—remember?) will eat it up!

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"The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now do you begin to understand me?" ~Orwell, "1984"

@Pricknick

If you are in the right part of Michigan you could vote for Justin Amash...

Someone on DK once opined something along the lines
of any given Democrat in Congress was smarter than any Republican there.

So I suggested Amash versus Hank Johnson and that was the last I heard from them.

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@CB
I'm still confused by that exceptional thingy.

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@Pricknick

"We always vote republican."

I gather they were attending a Democrat polling place....

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@CB
I'm still confused about both parties and many americans calling this nation exceptional.
But yeah, it was and will always be a republican stronghold.
At least they voted to legalize marijuana. I'd be willing to bet trump does it soon nationally.

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Michigan, Missouri and Mississippi all have ByeDone leading the polls. But it's what happens when people can't vote. Long lines. Machines that don't work. People kicked off the voting rolls. Lots of other problems. So what can Bernie do?

lol look at the tag Twitter put on this.

This was not edited. But of course people will believe it was.

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Which AIPAC/MIC/pharma/bank bought politician are you going to vote for? Don’t be surprised when nothing changes.

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@snoopydawg Go third party; he doesn't owe the Dims shit. Not roll over and take it like in 2016. There's lots of things he could do.

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This shit is bananas.

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@Daenerys

Either one sends a message to democrats that the time for them to take people for granted is over. There is no way in hell I will ever believe that Biden beat Bernie. Never. Not when he never opened an office in the Super Tuesday states or in the ones he's winning tonight. Never. Going. To. Happen.

And just go ahead and do this. Seriously just cancel the rest of the primary because we know that you would just put people through the sham of voting. 3-4 hour lines again and lots of other problems that haven't happened on this scale ever.

The only good news from tonight is that people can start believing that democracy is dead here. The desperation I witnessed during the primary was huge. But the democrats turned a blind eye to it. Again.

Thanks Obama.

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@Daenerys
I now consider him a democrat.
He wont go against the dnc.

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@Pricknick

I'm curious to see what Bernie will do besides campaigning for Biden.

But we're off the hook for having Bernie tell us we should vote for Joe. Kos admitted that Warren has no power to make her supporters vote for Bernie. My how things change when it's against the candidate you hate. I'm still seeing people blaming Hillary's supporters for not voting for her. Even though most did.

Ya think?

sorry if I've posted this already. Bad hair day.

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@snoopydawg

Looks like the manipulated video tag doesn't show when embedded. I just saw it on two other videos of Joe speaking. Just more evidence of rigging.

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that an old guy gets all the crowds and small donors...

And yet, another old guy, with cognitive issues, gets the votes with nary an effort. Literally.

Tribal Democrats are just as stupid as tribal Republicans.

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Gëzuar!!
from a reasonably stable genius.

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@Bollox Ref

It's wishful thinking. Our All-Powerful Overlords rig the boxes so that no matter what goes in, only the results they want come out.

Ballot box gone, soapbox gone, jury box gone....

There will be blood.

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There is no justice. There can be no peace.

than DK saying they are all about electing Democrats, period.

I'm old enough to have experienced school when they still had Civics classes - wherein we were told we had a responsibility to vote for the best person to do the job.

Indoctrinated me so effectively I still try to do that.

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