Night of the Election and Cookies.

[troyworks]

Funny. I walked out for dinner a bit before 9pm. Streets were a ghost town, it's cold and windy, things creaking..it felt very much like Harry Potter 3 shortly after he inflated his Aunt and runs away. Restaurants were empty, the one I was looking forward too open late, shortly after I sat down was approached by the apologetic manager saying they

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[triath]

"In addition, I'm still disgusted with how blatant the omission or distortion of ... how we got into this mess into the first place."

Your view is?

[troyworks]

As to the former,
Evuhl forces at work. He wasn't paid up in the right places.

As for the latter:
We are an opportunistic species, at all levels. High on impulsivity, and bad with prioritizing/triage/numbers. I'm still amazed that every year, gun control, abortion, assisted suicide, and gay marriage take up hundreds of millions of dollars in ad revenue on both sides fighting over them.

[outlawpoet]

honestly, I think he would have had a better chance as an independent. He was trying to work via the Republican system, and they simply weren't including him.

I found his appearance on Colbert during the RNC very interesting. He mentioned actually being invited to speak there, but on the condition of talking points, which he refused.

[troyworks]

Possibly.

I still think the same thing would have happened. I suspect that the powers that be, predicted a close race (e.g. 5-10%) and didn't want to give anybody room to create a stalemate...which I think he very well could have, or draw away votes from Republicans which as we've seen were rather lackluster.

He got a lot of passionate support but the bottom line is this games are won heavily by mass media assistance and that was omitting him even when he got 6% of some of the votes, or picking the absolute worse lights, more often than not.