That Was a Close One
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Lincoln's fault.
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In 1860, Lincoln voted for all his party candidates...except himself; on principle.
Which is interesting to me, because when viewing both sides' candidates in several races in recent years and being certain I couldn't do as terrible a job as either would, I've done the opposite and written my own name in on principle.
ThirstyBarbarian
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It sounds like the guy who lost didn’t really care that much and is ok with the winner.
One of the interesting things I’ve learned lately is that a felony conviction can take away a person‘s right to vote, but not necessarily prevent that person from running for office. So a convicted felon might run for office but not be able to vote for themself.
One of the interesting things I’ve learned lately is that a felony conviction can take away a person‘s right to vote, but not necessarily prevent that person from running for office. So a convicted felon might run for office but not be able to vote for themself.
Yup. And I bet we both heard that brought up recently in the same interview with a certain political candidate, but let's not go there.
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One of the problems with successful capitalism. When highly qualified people are successful and enjoying life, they tend not to run, or seriously run for political office. Then, along with a "two party system", we get presented with questionable leftovers.
