Daily Topics - Friday June 10th, 2016
By shawnt56
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- Anything Goes Friday
- Speaker Paul Ryan's "Poverty" Plan - Congressman Mark Pocan (D-WI, 2nd District)
- Push For Basic Income Continues... - Enno Schmidt, Basic Income Switzerland
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#2
As a primary election poll worker on June 7th in California, a state that leans toward the Democratic party, I was puzzled as to why there were only half as many Democratic paper ballots as Republican. There were also a significantly higher number of people coming in, voluntarily announcing that they were there to vote for Bernie Sanders, than any other candidate. And if we ran out of the supply of Democratic paper ballots, any voters thereafter wishing to vote Democratic were forced to wait in line at the only electronic voting machine available for my precinct.
On a somewhat different note, I'm wondering how our electoral delegates can say that they're being fair to all the candidates, while aware of the virtually nonexistant media coverage of one particular candidate who STILL manages to get over 45% of the Primary Election vote, isn't deserving of some credit for doing that well under the circumstances!
#3
And finally, I think we should all be asking those who favor Hillary Clinton over Bernie Sanders, whether they'd still vote for Hillary if she were NOT a woman. I REALLY wish we could focus more on the candidates' MINDSETS, than on their genders! People usually tend to condict their business with their minds, not their genitalia!
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