So, here's how it works here...

[wig]

I live in a Republican State. but our county is heavily Democrat. Butte America, in fact is one of the founding seats of unionization. (Whether you are for or against unions, That's kinda cool that a tiny little town in South Western Montana had such a HUGE impact upon Unionization. But I digress. The point is, Silverbow County (Wherein Butte resides, is hugely Democrat).

So I was informed two days ago by somebody who is currently working in the county elections office, preparing ballots etc. of a particularly disturbing nuance of our law here.

You merely need a physical address in order to be registered to vote in Silverbow County. And it doesn't need to be a "Home". In discussions with this person working in the courthouse, it came up that a particular address was very odd and that there were several people registered at this address. And the woman in charge said, "Oh ya, that's the UPS store."

Apparently quite a few people "live" at the UPS store and the Public Library.

Awesome. Better yet, it would appear this is completely legal.

Double Awesome.

 

[Steeltime]

Apparently quite a few people "live" at the UPS store and the Public Library.

Awesome. Better yet, it would appear this is completely legal.

Double Awesome.

Unpossible.

Democrats have told me for years that voter fraud does not happen, and if it does, it is always Republicans that do it. So I find your tale of voter fraud by Democrats to be unpossible.

 

[ark steel]

Unpossible.

Democrats have told me for years that voter fraud does not happen, and if it does, it is always Republicans that do it. So I find your tale of voter fraud by Democrats to be unpossible.

Diebold is stealing the election for the GOP.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

Serious question....if the Republicans were ever able to win the Presidency, House and veto proof Senate, would it be possible to pass a National Voting registration requiring proper ID to vote? Law right or can it be overturned at state level or thru the courts?

 

[wig]

Probably not. The way the country is set up, it would be difficult to ratify such a law throughout the 50 states.

The mess of determining what a "Proper ID" is would be a 4 year process by itself.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

Upside, this is why the electoral college is a good thing. When a heavily Democrat state like NY, IL, or CA engages in massive voter fraud, it doesn't really make any difference.

 

[wig]

The interesting thing about the Electoral College is that they are not technically bound to vote as the state votes.

So, even though Montana is and has always been a "Red" state, it is conceivable for Montana's 3 "electoral college" voters to choose to vote differently if they were say, part of that Never Trump crowd. Just sayin'. This is a year where that could conceivably happen.

Now THAT would lead to widespread crazed speculation of election rigging.

 

[Ron Burgundy]

The interesting thing about the Electoral College is that they are not technically bound to vote as the state votes.

Only if they want to keep their phoney baloney jobs.

 

[21STEELERS21]

When was the last time a Democrat presidential candidate won Montana?

 

[SteelerInLebanon]

Diebold is stealing the election for the GOP.

Since the other side is cheating I hope they do it is only fair.

 

[SteelerInLebanon]

Maybe we need to start equating the Democrats with the Patriots win or lose Cheat at all cost!

 

[wig]

Only if they want to keep their phoney baloney jobs.

As I understand it they are selected each electoral cycle by the party. So they don't keep their jobs anyway.

 

[wig]

When was the last time a Democrat presidential candidate won Montana?

1992. William Jefferson Clinton. Likely due to the "Perot" factor.

 

[POP]

Your vote doesn't count. Trump never had a chance, no matter how many more people will vote for him. It's been over from the get go. Hilary is the central bankers/Wall St. servant. It's been in the bag before it ever started.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/10/18/soros-connected-company-provides-voting-machines-in-16-states/

 

[Tibs]

Your vote doesn't count. Trump never had a chance, no matter how many more people will vote for him. It's been over from the get go. Hilary is the central bankers/Wall St. servant. It's been in the bag before it ever started.

Or maybe, any other GOP candidate could have roundly beaten Clinton. Maybe, just maybe, the problem is with Trump, who is now facing a backlash all across the country. But that would be too obvious for you, I understand. This explanation/excuse is murkier and more conspiratory, which of course is more to your liking.

 

[Steeltime]

 

[SteelChip]

Or maybe, any other GOP candidate could have roundly beaten Clinton. Maybe, just maybe, the problem is with Trump, who is now facing a backlash all across the country. But that would be too obvious for you, I understand. This explanation/excuse is murkier and more conspiratory, which of course is more to your liking.

It's all part of history Tibs, another step on the ladder of populism.


This article came out today in the Free Beacon. While it may be somewhat dry and glitzy for most, it reflects on the history of the Republican Party and the New Right's present candidate.

Crisis of the Conservative Intellectual
http://freebeacon.com/columns/crisi...ail&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-1d434245fe-22930469

Most of the article is political history and alignments building up to the last paragraph....

THE POPULIST TRIUMPH

Trump’s strongest supporters are drawn from the network of institutions, spokesmen, and causes established by the New Right some 40 years ago.

Immigration, which emerged as a social issue at the turn of the twenty-first century, was key to Trump’s success. So was his role as outsider, independent critic of the rigged system, scold of elites, avatar of reaction. The apocalyptic predictions, the dichotomy between makers and takers, even the idea of seizing Arab territory and “taking the oil” comes straight from Bill Rusher’s 1975 Making of the New Majority Party.

The relentless hostility toward the media, both liberal and heterodox conservative, the accusation that it, the government, and the financial sector is engaged in a criminal conspiracy with Hillary Clinton, the denigration of Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, the appeal to supporters of democratic socialist Bernie Sanders, the charge that the “global power structure” has “stripped” manufacturing towns “bare and raided the wealth for themselves”—this is adversarianism in its purest, most conspiratorial, most totalistic form.

It is the same discourse, the same methods, the same antinomianism, the same reaction to demographic change and liberal overreach that we encountered in the 1970s. The difference is that Donald Trump is so noxious, so unhinged, so extremist in his rejection of democratic norms and political convention and basic manners that he has untethered the New Right politics he embodies from the descendants of William F. Buckley Jr.

The triumph of populism has left conservatism marooned, confused, uncertain, depressed, anxious, searching for a tradition, for a program, for viability.

 

[Steeltime]

The difference is that Donald Trump is so noxious, so unhinged, so extremist in his rejection of democratic norms and political convention and basic manners that he has untethered the New Right politics he embodies from the descendants of William F. Buckley Jr.

Here is what irritates me no end. The left hated - I mean, HATED - Bill Buckley.

Now, their ideological descendants bemoan the fact that so-and-so has "untethered" the new right from Buckley's politics.

Horseshit. The left hated Buckley and now tries to take advantage of his inability to respond to their idiocy by proclaiming their disappointment that current leaders do not follow Buckley's beliefs.