http://texasselects06.wordpress.com Why should you care? Because we have to. Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:57:40 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://texasselects06.wordpress.com/2006/09/08/tossup-twenty-two/#comment-2 Mini-Mudpie Flinging « Texas: General Elections 2006 Mon, 25 Sep 2006 22:57:40 +0000 http://texasselects06.wordpress.com/2006/09/08/tossup-twenty-two/#comment-2 [...] Extremely Stupid: Republicans have shot themselves in the foot by calling the public’s attention to the fallacies of write-in balloting. If they expect to win District 22 at all–remember that the Republicans have no one on the formal election day ballot due to DeLay’s crap, meaning that they MUST wage a write-in campaign to keep the seat from turning Democrat–pointing out the possibility of someone’s vote getting lost in the mail due to partisan crap, my guess would be that not many will do so. The write-in process is complicated enough for the “average American,” so pointing out that all that effort to get the ballot and complete it correctly all for naught is slightly moronic. [...] [...] Extremely Stupid: Republicans have shot themselves in the foot by calling the public’s attention to the fallacies of write-in balloting. If they expect to win District 22 at all–remember that the Republicans have no one on the formal election day ballot due to DeLay’s crap, meaning that they MUST wage a write-in campaign to keep the seat from turning Democrat–pointing out the possibility of someone’s vote getting lost in the mail due to partisan crap, my guess would be that not many will do so. The write-in process is complicated enough for the “average American,” so pointing out that all that effort to get the ballot and complete it correctly all for naught is slightly moronic. [...]

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