Iraq and Afghanistan Statehood

[SPC]

Suspend reality for a minute and assume that Bush annexed Iraq and Afghanistan and granted them admission to the union prior to the 2004 election. How would you expect the two newest states to vote in Presidential elections subsequently?

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

>90% for pro-independence parties.

[Jerseyrules]

They'd probably be under Reconstruction-type scrutiny, I doubt they would've voted till 08

[SPC]

Even if citizenship were bestowed on the liberated denizens, wouldn't the 14 year residency requirement prevent any pro-independence parties from participating until 2020?

[Jerseyrules]

Even if citizenship were bestowed on the liberated denizens, wouldn't the 14 year residency requirement prevent any pro-independence parties from participating until 2020?

What?  I don't know what that has to do with independence parties?

[Peeperkorn]

As religious troglodytes they would probably vote Republican. 

[Jerseyrules]

As religious troglodytes they would probably vote Republican. 

That's not nice.

[SPC]

Even if citizenship were bestowed on the liberated denizens, wouldn't the 14 year residency requirement prevent any pro-independence parties from participating until 2020?

What?  I don't know what that has to do with independence parties?

Nobody from Iraq or Afghanistan would be eligible to run until 2020. The independence parties would have to run a candidate from the contiguous United States or Alaska or Hawaii.

[Jerseyrules]

Even if citizenship were bestowed on the liberated denizens, wouldn't the 14 year residency requirement prevent any pro-independence parties from participating until 2020?

What?  I don't know what that has to do with independence parties?

Nobody from Iraq or Afghanistan would be eligible to run until 2020. The independence parties would have to run a candidate from the contiguous United States or Alaska or Hawaii.

Oh I understand, but would they be able to vote?

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

As religious troglodytes they would probably vote Republican. 

This statement is really wrong and for more than one reason.

[kashifkhan]

I think they'd vote heavily in favor of the GOP, just because it was a Republican president who brought them into the Union.