[lbo-talk] Tell them we are democrats (was: freedom to swim)

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Fri Jun 26 20:05:12 PDT 2009


On Jun 26, 2009, at 10:58 PM, Michael Smith wrote:


> On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 22:39:16 -0400
> shag carpet bomb <shag at cleandraws.com> wrote:
>
>> so why did they come out in force and roundly reject Ahmadinejad's
>> buddies
>> in the mid-term elections?
>
> Dunno. You'd have to ask them. Why did people here re-elect W in
> 2004 and "reject" his "buddies" in 2006?
>
> If I understand your line of argument, it's that there must
> have been fraud because they rejected the buddies in the midterms
> and then bit later re-elected the man himself. It's a pretty
> flimsy argument, I gotta say. Such things have been known to happen

From what I know of elections, they usually move in much smaller increments than the 1400% swing you find so believable.

Doug



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