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Bandit3 the Worker
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« on: September 04, 2014, 11:29:58 AM »
Why in the Wide, Wide World Of Sports is there no Democrat running for Senate in Alabama?

Is there a Green candidate? If not, who are progressives supposed to vote for?

The fact that there's only one candidate sounds like something straight out of the Soviet Union.
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« Reply #1 on: September 04, 2014, 11:33:55 AM »
From wiki; "He was the only candidate to file before the deadline and as such he will be unopposed in the primary and general elections.[1] An independent candidate would have been able to challenge Sessions if at least 44,828 signatures had been submitted by June 3, 2014.[2]"
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« Reply #2 on: September 04, 2014, 11:35:04 AM »
Quote from: politicus on September 04, 2014, 11:33:55 AM
From wiki; "He was the only candidate to file before the deadline and as such he will be unopposed in the primary and general elections.[1]

Sounds like Soviet-style communism to me.
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« Reply #3 on: September 04, 2014, 11:39:54 AM »
Because a Democrat can't win in Alabama.
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« Reply #4 on: September 04, 2014, 11:47:28 AM »
Quote from: SamInTheSouth on September 04, 2014, 11:39:54 AM
Because a Democrat can't win in Alabama.

A Democrat would have a tough time in lots of places all over America, but people still need a choice.

Otherwise, it's not democracy.
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« Reply #5 on: September 04, 2014, 12:38:29 PM »
Somebody in some other thread was complaining that they didn't run "Someguy McBluedog" which is hilarious, but true.
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« Reply #6 on: September 04, 2014, 01:47:09 PM »
I guess Alabama progressives (who haven't fled yet) would have to write in something stupid.
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« Reply #7 on: September 04, 2014, 01:48:38 PM »
Quote from: CrabCake on September 04, 2014, 01:47:09 PM
I guess Alabama progressives (who haven't fled yet) would have to write in something stupid.

If I lived in Alabama, I might just vote for myself as a write-in. I always do this in uncontested local elections.
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« Reply #8 on: September 04, 2014, 02:34:07 PM »
Because the Alabama Democratic Party is one of the most broken and hopeless in the nation.
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« Reply #9 on: September 04, 2014, 03:13:25 PM »
I'd write in Obama.
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« Reply #10 on: September 04, 2014, 03:15:56 PM »
Quote from: Dixiecrat on September 04, 2014, 02:34:07 PM
Because the Alabama Democratic Party is one of the most broken and hopeless in the nation.

... and Alabama is one of the most broken and hopeless states in the nation.
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« Reply #11 on: September 04, 2014, 03:33:39 PM »
It's Alabama
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« Reply #12 on: September 04, 2014, 05:43:30 PM »
Alabama hates Freedom.
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« Reply #13 on: September 04, 2014, 10:02:39 PM »
...Because no one filed to run.

It's not as if Sessions and the Alabama Republican Party are oppressing progressives and preventing them from running a candidate.

The fact that no one ran does not imply that Alabama is broken or hates freedom, it implies that nobody wanted to be demolished by Jeff Sessions and waste time and money while doing so.
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« Reply #14 on: September 05, 2014, 01:06:52 AM »
Will Sessions automatically receive 100% of the votes, or will abstentions and write-ins also count?
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« Reply #15 on: September 05, 2014, 01:08:35 AM »
Quote from: solarstorm on September 05, 2014, 01:06:52 AM
Will Sessions automatically receive 100% of the votes, or will abstentions and write-ins also count?

See Thune, South Dakota in 2010.
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