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Thread: Why do some people still split tickets?

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    Default Why do some people still split tickets?

    I remember a very casual incident from the 1990s.

    Smoking at your desk had just been eliminated at work, so smoking rooms were installed around the building.
    Eventually, they'd be eliminated too.

    This was shortly before I patched my way out of the addiction,
    so in one of the smoking rooms,
    I overheard two women--
    neither of them a Princeton or Harvard faculty member--
    discussing politics.

    I vote the man (gender specific), not the party, one of these dim bulbs said.
    The other was quick to agree.

    I, on the other hand, only look at actual names in the Democratic Primary.
    In general elections, I go straight down the blue column. Names, at this point, become irrelevant.

    How can anybody with a clue about what's going on split tickets?

    The Democratic (not Democrat) Party believes that government must be considered
    for anything done more efficiently collectively than individually.

    The Republican Party believes that government is only for those things that can only be done collectively.


    If the two parties have totally different views of what government is for,
    how can anybody split tickets
    unless they don't have a fucking clue?

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    Quote Originally Posted by NiftyNiblick View Post
    I remember a very casual incident from the 1990s.

    Smoking at your desk had just been eliminated at work, so smoking rooms were installed around the building.
    Eventually, they'd be eliminated too.

    This was shortly before I patched my way out of the addiction,
    so in one of the smoking rooms,
    I overheard two women--
    neither of them a Princeton or Harvard faculty member--
    discussing politics.

    I vote the man (gender specific), not the party, one of these dim bulbs said.
    The other was quick to agree.

    I, on the other hand, only look at actual names in the Democratic Primary.
    In general elections, I go straight down the blue column. Names, at this point, become irrelevant.

    How can anybody with a clue about what's going on split tickets?

    The Democratic (not Democrat) Party believes that government must be considered
    for anything done more efficiently collectively than individually.

    The Republican Party believes that government is only for those things that can only be done collectively.


    If the two parties have totally different views of what government is for,
    how can anybody split tickets
    unless they don't have a fucking clue?
    There are some Republicans on a local level that do the right things. I voted for Republicans because they were better people than the Democrats running against them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NiftyNiblick View Post
    I remember a very casual incident from the 1990s.

    Smoking at your desk had just been eliminated at work, so smoking rooms were installed around the building.
    Eventually, they'd be eliminated too.

    This was shortly before I patched my way out of the addiction,
    so in one of the smoking rooms,
    I overheard two women--
    neither of them a Princeton or Harvard faculty member--
    discussing politics.

    I vote the man (gender specific), not the party, one of these dim bulbs said.
    The other was quick to agree.

    I, on the other hand, only look at actual names in the Democratic Primary.
    In general elections, I go straight down the blue column. Names, at this point, become irrelevant.

    How can anybody with a clue about what's going on split tickets?

    The Democratic (not Democrat) Party believes that government must be considered
    for anything done more efficiently collectively than individually.

    The Republican Party believes that government is only for those things that can only be done collectively.


    If the two parties have totally different views of what government is for,
    how can anybody split tickets
    unless they don't have a fucking clue?
    What is Trump? He ISNT a Republican.
    Be Best

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    I assume that anybody who allows (R) to be placed after his or her name is in accord with that for which (R) stands.

    We have a lot of people in liberal Massachusetts who think that Charlie Baker (R) is a good governor.

    But Charlie Baker wasted his time endorsing Elizabeth Warren's Republican opponent.
    He's still an (R), even if he told Trump to pound sand when Trump wanted Massachusetts National Guard troops on the southern border.
    A good move here or there doesn't mean he's rejected the values of his party.

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