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Mayor Comcast grooming Her Inevitableness. I guess Herr Kissinger was busy.
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It's not a matter of Bernie filling Safeco. It's whether there will be enough secret service checking the lines and letting them through. I was volunteering last Sunday, and the main entrance at Key Arena was moving at a trickle. I estimated 900 people an hour. People in line moved a hundred feet or so in over three hours. I was amazed at their resiliency and spirit. Even with doors opening up five hours ahead of time there were still over 5,000 who didn't make it in not because there wasn't enough room, but not enough time to be checked through.
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@ god youre dumb
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Why isn't the Stranger making a bigger deal about the Man in Tree?! WTF! The whole country is freaking out and the Stranger is like, meh.
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What is up with the website recently? The comments are all screwed up. Did that at risk tech savvy youth finally succumb to their inner demons?
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@2- are you implying that a Democrat will attack this person for having donated (seems pretty unlikely), or a reprisal from a Trump activist feeling scorned (seems actually pretty likely).
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About that Arizona result: http://usuncut.com/news/arizona-polling-…
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@5- Why is anyone paying attention to The Man In The Tree. If we'd just fucking ignored him he'd have climbed down a while ago.
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It might be worth looking at the massive voter suppression that took place in Arizona yesterday because that's something that could seriously come back and bite us all in the ass in November. If you hadn't heard anything about it (which is possible because it's mostly being reported in Arizona), from a Southern Arizona National Lawyers Guild member:

"Arizona's primary election day was a man-made disaster of epic proportions. Here's what we know, so far, and how this affects the vote:
1. Maricopa County, the state's most populous (and for you non-'zoners, the home of Sheriff Joe Arpaio) reduced its polling places from 200 in the 2012 primaries to 60, in spite of higher predicted turnout. The head of the election commission is an elected Republican. The reductions were largely in Latin@ districts.

2. As of yet uncounted numbers of registered Democrats found out yesterday that they'd been unregistered from the party, or to vote. This means they can't vote in the primary. Instead of being told they could vote provisional ballots (which will then be counted if it turns out they were, indeed, registered Dems), they were sent away.

3. Downtown Tucson had bomb threat evacuations that tied up the voter help hotlines.

4. Anything else, election watchers? As always, corrections welcome.

Why and what this means: Low voter turnout always means better odds for Republicans. Low income people and people of color, who vote Democratic by wide margins, are more likely to turn out on election day to vote rather than doing early vote by mail; therefore, long lines and few polling places affects them the most, particularly since they are also the ones most likely to not be able to get time off work to make it to a polling place.

The major disenrollment of Democratic voters is alleged to be partly the Democratic party's fault for not updating their rolls recently, although I do not think this was a Clinton-camp conspiracy (but it did likely tip the scales in her favor, because more people registered recently to vote for Bernie). The fact that previously-enrolled Democrats, and only Democrats, were removed from their party rolls, is extremely suspicious.

Arizona already has a Republican-controlled election commission, but it has a bi-partisan election redistricting commission-- a new bill would make every single seat on the commission open to general elections, meaning that the commission that designates districts would be entirely Republican. Another bill would make the perfectly legal practice of having someone else deliver your completed, sealed, mail-in-ballot to your polling place illegal; this is to stop alleged voter fraud from a practice that helped turn out low-income Latin@ votes."

I'm not sure if we want to wait until the day after the general to start addressing this stuff.
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@10: Kind like Donald Drumpf. Hey, maybe it's performance art subtly hinting at how we'll pay attention to any idiot who makes a spectacle...

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