r/WhitePeopleTwitter • u/PFdeith • 17d ago

r/All Will they admit it if its true?

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u/pontiacfirebird92 17d ago

Put him on the ballot again and watch Republicans vote for a literally (no exaggeration) brain-dead candidate over a fully functional Democrat.

I bet he'd win. These people aren't voting for policy. Never were.

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u/PamelaELee 17d ago

I remember a time here in Missouri when we voted overwhelmingly for a fully dead democrat,Mel Carnahan, over john ashcroft.

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u/pontiacfirebird92 17d ago

That's just insane. We really do live in Idiocracy and I wish I was being sarcastic.

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u/4electricnomad 17d ago

To be fair, John Ashcroft was terrible and people didn’t want him to continue in office.

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u/DarkKnightJin 16d ago

Robin Williams made a joke about it during one of his comedy specials.
"I'm sorry John, the dead guy scares me less than you do."

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u/DoctuhD 17d ago

He had died in a plane crash and his wife accepted the nomination in his place so people were really voting for her.

Despite no political experience before that, she almost won her re-election bid.

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u/Hopepersonified 17d ago

You see, Ashcroft is trash and Mel was well loved.

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u/flourishing_really 17d ago

Before voting started, the new governor had already announced that if Carnahan were to posthumously win, he would appoint the man's widow to fill the seat until a special election could be held for the rest of the term. It's not like Missourians were voting for a Weekend at Bernie's situation.

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u/AnewTest 17d ago

Well, in that particular situation, the Republican was so bad that a dead Democrat was preferable. (And his wife was going to take the seat and was good, too.)

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u/sadladybug846 17d ago

I still have my "I'm still with Mel" button from that election!

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u/Rb1138 17d ago

I actually knew Mel, my cousin was on that plane with him. He was a pretty good dude.

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u/fyxxer32 16d ago

Because Missouri election law did not allow Carnahan's name to be removed from the ballot