GreenPartyVoter
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Tue Nov-02-10 11:20 PM
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Maine Governor: 60% of the vote in: Ind: 37.2%, Repub: 37.1% (and he's been gaining all night) |
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Edited on Tue Nov-02-10 11:31 PM by GreenPartyVoter
Yargh!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EDIT: now the Repub is ahead..... this could go on all night.
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Ken Burch
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Tue Nov-02-10 11:23 PM
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1. What's the independent like? |
GreenPartyVoter
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Tue Nov-02-10 11:26 PM
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2. He's interesting. More to the middle than I wanted, but on the plus side he did once work with |
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Senator Muskie. The real problem here is that he and the Dem (who I would have preferred, at least based on her issues stances) have split the vote more than the other 3 conservative candidates.
What a mess. Plurality voting just isn't good for races featuring more than 2 contestants.
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Tue Nov-02-10 11:28 PM
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3. Small towns are slow to report... |
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...hand-counted and phoned in, many of them. I remember not signing the final reports and sealing envelopes and such till well after midnight in mine when I was an election clerk.
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Tue Nov-02-10 11:31 PM
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4. Yeah. I know that staying up will accomplish nothing, but I can't tear myself away from that |
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darned refresh button anyway!
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