Perhaps I should narrow the question to make it easier for anyone here to answer
[QUOTE=Tiny12;2767698]I think I know what happened. Apparently you were looking at the web page with an upright handphone and didn't scroll right or left or up or down. If you'd used a PC or rotated your phone 90 degrees, the percentages would have been staring you straight in the face, 47.8% Democrats vs 50.7% Republicans.
[URL]https://www.cookpolitical.com/charts/house-charts/national-house-vote-tracker/2022[/URL]
As to your beliefs, both parties sue. I don't know why Republicans would want to restrict voting days. Compared to your average Democrat, your average Republican is more likely to be busting his ass instead of sitting on his ass. So the extra and weekend voting days benefit the Republicans. And as to "adding requirements," I don't believe there are any significant barriers preventing any American, other than individuals with a criminal record in many states, from voting.
No criticism of you though. You're subjected to a constant barrage of propaganda from Democratic politicians and operatives and left of center media so it's no wonder you believe there's a problem.
And, with the exception of former-Democrat Donald Trump and his acolytes, Democrats are arguably the bigger offenders when it comes to trying to avoid counting votes lawfully cast in favor of the candidates of the opposing party.
I picked this article out especially for you, as it comes from a source you know and trust:
[URL]https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/06/opinion/democrat-republican-electoral-votes.html[/URL]
How about looking at the numbers? To appreciate this next link, you're going to have to view it on your laptop instead of some rinky dink handphone.
[URL]https://ballotpedia.org/Election_results,_2020:_Analysis_of_rejected_ballots[/URL]
Scroll down to the table "Comparison of rejected absentee / mail-in ballots in the 2016,2018 and 2020 general elections. Sort in descending order by rejection rate. Which state has rejected the largest % of ballots during the 2016,2018 and 2020 elections combined? New York, a blue state. In 2020, in descending order, the ten states with the highest rejection rates were Arkansas, New Mexico, New York, Mississippi, Oklahoma, Illinois, Louisiana, Delaware, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey. That's 5 blue states, 4 red states, and one purple state.
Yeah, Trump supporters went ape shit crazy after the 2020 election, trying to overturn election results. And what were the results? How many votes were overturned as a result of the Trumpsters' efforts? Was it a handful? Or zero, zip, nada, not a one. I'm not sure, but the courts, including Trump appointees, did their jobs the way they were supposed to.
The left of center media and Democratic Party are making a mountain out of a molehill, as it's a damn effective way of firing up the base and getting them to go out and vote. A good example is the fury of the Democrats at not being allowed to furnish food and beverages to people in election lines in Georgia. WTF? Do they want to return to 100 years ago, where politicians handed out booze and barbecue in front of the polling stations while they electioneered?
Well, combined with Trump's after election craziness and abortion, the strategy worked. Those are the reasons there wasn't a GOP blow out this year.[/QUOTE]Yes, I am using a smartphone and my thumb for this. I rarely boot up my laptop anymore. And when I moved left, right, zoomed in, zoomed out there was only the Repub count.
Throwing out invalid ballots? I have no objection to any qualified official doing that. But Repubs want to appoint avowed Election Denying / Lying QAnon Repub loons to make those decisions.
Your NYT link was quickly obscured by a Subscription Required pop up so I did not read much of it. But it appeared to be about the Dems' noble efforts to abandon the decidedly undemocratic Electoral College system. Good. I hope they succeed someday.
Otherwise, I will count this as another "I can't" response, this time to my challenge to show us where Dems mount a party-wide effort to disenfranchise likely Repub voters and not count their votes.
Maybe that challenge is too broad, allowing for every itty-bitty insignificant ballot gathering or counting glitch by a Dem somewhere being given falsely equal weight to what Repubs have been doing for a long time to suppress Dem votes.
So, to add a bit more focus to it, how about this one; please name and cite a case where a recognized leader of the Democtatic Party, say, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Pelosi, Schumer, for example, led a violent, cop-killing insurrection to storm the Capitol Building on the day the votes AND the Electoral College awards were to be confirmed on the basis of a Big And Very Well Established And Proven Lie and that the Vice President of their Party should disenfranchise 81,000,000+ voters, throw out ALL of their ballots, dsregard ALL of their votes for POTUS and give it to the Dem candidate regardless.
Got anything for that?
And to really drive home your "BOTH Parties do that" assertion, please link the highly regarded polls showing a decisive majority of Dems being four square behind such a proven Big Lie and, by logical deduction, the unconstitutional measures taken by the Party to throw out those millions of votes.
Since "BOTH Parties" do this sort of thing it ought to be easy to provide links for that.
I have no idea what those links prove
[QUOTE=Tiny12;2767703]Thank goodness for the Republicans! If they weren't around, the federal government would be even larger and more intrusive, and our per capita GDP would be comparable to France's.
But the future does not look as rosy as the past. Unfortunately, a Democrat, Donald Trump, infiltrated the Republican Party. Many Republicans followed this Pied Piper, and now the majority of Republican politicians are as bad as the Democrats -- see my post #11130 below. Perhaps another Ronald Reagan will come along and set America straight. We can hope.
We've covered this before, see below. You're wrong.
[URL]http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/forum/showthread.php?2467-American-Politics&p=2743466[/URL]
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[URL]http://www.internationalsexguide.nl/forum/showthread.php?2467-American-Politics&p=2749483[/URL][/QUOTE]Those links take me to entire pages of posts by many posters.
Here's the deal; if Repubs didn't consistently produce crap results they would run on those actual results in elections instead of on their traditional sucker social issues. They would not have to be continually drawn to nominate unqualified "celebrities" for the top job of economic steward in order to sell their crap policies and results as they did with Eisenhower, Reagan and Trump. Not that their actual experienced pols like Hoover, Nixon and the Bushes fared any better on results.
Their decades' long March to getting everything important as wrong as possible and somehow still exist would not have led them inevitably and directly to Donald J. Trump, the ultimate con man snake oil pitchman to sell their consistent crap policies and results to enough ignorant, America-hating hillbillies to squeeze out another unpopular election "win" and throw the entire country into another, another and another Great Repub disaster.
But the Repub Party has no alternative but to pull all that voter disenfranchising and vote suppresion shit, running on their classic sucker social issues and choosing "celebrity" con men to sell their snake oil crap.
What really happens is this
[QUOTE=JustTK;2768039]Here's the deal Tooms. If the Dems didn't consistently produce crap results the Reps would not get in power every second election cycle. Its your blind loyalty to a correupt party that favours the rich that leads directly to the Reps gaining power every few years. It's YOU thatis to blame for not embracing change.[/QUOTE]Here's what really happens.
Part 1: A Dem president gets elected. Repubs spend 2 years throwing up roadblocks to every bit of legislation the Dems propose. The Repubs point to the "fact" that Dems haven't gotten anything done (they conveniently forget that Repubs were the ones blocking everything). Repubs gain a majority of House and-or Senate. Repubs spend the next 2 years (or up to 6 more years) complaining about how Dems want "open borders" and-or are communist and-or are socialist and-or want to take away your guns and-or a bunch of other stuff.
Part 2: After 4 (or 8) years, a Repub gets elected president because they have convinced the voters that they know what they're doing re: the economy. Repubs have a majority in the House and-or Senate. Repubs pass another voodoo economics tax cut for the rich and spend money like drunken sailors. The economy goes into a tailspin. Repubs are thrown out (after 4 or 8 years) and a Dem is elected president and Dems have control of the House and-or Senate. Dems pass legislation that spends money to assist the economy to pull out of the tailspin. Repubs are now suddenly against spending any money at all even though Repubs just spend 4-to-8 years spending money like drunken sailors.
Go to Part 1.