The voting public, what few remain, get up in arms, rightly, over the 2016 Super-Delegate rigging by democrats in their primary... and then we get Ranked Choice in primaries.
Nice job of switching the scam, folks!
Let's see how that puts in the fix.
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Regarding "New Yorkers overwhelmingly approved..."
What was the voter turnout?
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@SLM: That's 1.3% for the City - 2% Statewide.
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@SLM:
BINGO!
All I found was this:
Out of 4.7 million registered voters only 1.3 percent or (60,110) cast early ballots from Oct. 26 through Nov. 3 ahead of yetserday’s election.
I don't know what the result was for election day proper, but the early voting was touted as a way to increase the numbers. The word "abysmal" kept cropping up in reports this morning.
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I read the mailers that came in the mail and was mostly torn about Proposal #2. What I found the most revealing was the Republican from Staten Island Joseph Borelli didn't even bother to list the three items he would like to accomplish if elected. He just repeated himself three times that he wanted to reverse the De Blasio agenda and I thought to myself; why are Republicans remotely satisfied with these ideologues who offer nothing more than blustering nonsense? How lazy Borelli was but it reflected on his lack of leadership and intellect. So glad he lost so thoroughly - go back to the drawing board buddy and come up with some real plans.
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I just want to give a quick shout-out to Virginia and Kentucky for slowly coming back into the fold -- and hopefully this also means a changing of the guard for Mitch McConnell who's also facing reelection in 2020.
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@N. Smith - On politics, it passed by me in the moment, but I guess they really did leave out the "Squid pro quo" joke in "Poor Unfortunate Souls" in the TV Little Mermaid last night. (when Ariel signs the contract with Ursula giving up her voice to get legs).
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"Depictions of children hanging from nooses during Halloween are a symptom of the gentrification problem in Brooklyn, neighbors said."
Dany Rose, the former co-head of ArtShack, needs an intelligence test and to move from her gentrified digs. How do you not know that hanging images of brown children from ropes is not offensive? And directly across from an elementary school? Unbelievable.
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But was the window display a symptom of gentrification or of a deeply stupid mentality?
A mentality found in all colors and creeds and among all classes.
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Any numbers on if early voting lead to higher turn out?
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@NBrooke Only 1.3% of registered voters used the early voting period. Approx. 60,110 people.
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To expand on what I was saying yesterday, I wasn't just referring to those who can't come to the polls on Election Day or on possible early voting, but those who don't bother to vote at all. I could never understand how sitting out on the one day it really matter helps anyone when it really just shows that you're nothing more than a fly on the wall. In a way, this is sort of like that rhetorical question about the tree falling in the middle of the forest but nobody is around to hear it which questions on whether or not it really made any sound. Just keep in mind that for some political candidate, they're very happy to have non-voters so that they don't have to worry about anyone standing up to them. As for ballot measures, it would have been nice if they had them on such issues as congestion and placed it all through downstate NY. This way it will show if it really is popular or not. However, I feel that the anti-car fanatics over and places such as Transportation Alternatives and Streetsblog will probably never support this idea if they know it will be struck down just like how Air BnB lost on Jersey City with regulating short term rentals even though it's leading the people directly deciding it and why they would prefer to do it through elitism instead. the same would be if bike lanes and busways were made as ballot measures in certain areas, because they to think that they could be struck down if ever placed to a vote.
@Tal - thanks for your answer yesterday, and I guess I agree and
own not having been part of any of the decisions made on the ballot yesterday.
In Public Advocate: I've felt I'd love to see Jumaane Williams be an attorney general or a judge, and I'd trust him if he was sworn to honestly interpret the law as written, but his views on some protected classes other than his own concern me about his being a step from Mayor while D.C.is as it is now. Maybe when DC is different.
Regarding " that rhetorical question about the tree falling in the middle of the forest but nobody is around to hear it."
This metaphor got an intense take in the brilliant "Dear Evan Hansen" - that part of the troubled character's first song is at 3:08 here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9rf5wFq3zk
I guess when we hear about the tree falling, then we know by inference and logic that it made a sound.
But as the Yogi Berra joke goes "If they don't wanna come, ya can't make 'em."
Even though I showed up to the polls all times when Gov. Cuomo somehow insanely in effect ran unopposed, I went and just didn't cast a vote for him - nor against him in the final result, but not for him. And you can see that the Governor clearly feels we must have been happy with his first two terms because he got his third term in a walk. I feel better not having used my right to vote in that category, not having been one of the votes for him, though I like many of his policies but oy, the waste.
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Jumaane Williams's grudging acceptance of a woman's right to terminate a pregnancy as well as of marriage equality is worrisome. Coming out in support of those two civil rights only in February 2019 offers little reassurance.
People do change, of course.
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@Tal Barzilai: If a tree falls in the middle of the forest but nobody is around to hear it, there is no "sound" whatsoever. Sound is the way our nervous system interprets motions in the air. So if no creature with a highly developed nervous system is around to register the air vibrations, then no sound resulted. What we call "sound" is merely an interpretation of the brain. So yes, the falling tree causes ripples in the surrounding atmosphere. Sound, however, is the thing the brain creates to alert us to those ripples. The question is far from "rhetorical," nor is it a metaphor. It is scientific fact.
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