Guess what time it is? It's GOP voter suppression time!

[MRT144]

Yeah the way chicago has been carved up is a travesty of machine politics. No one denies this. Roll it back.

[rah]

I think if you look at many large metro areas you'll find the core to be dem and the collar areas repug. It follows the mean income.

[Sava]

Sava strikes me as someone who doesn't know very many republicans.

Up until the last election, the county I live in was a solid GOP county. I know my state representative personally (republican). My friend's mom is a very active participant in local and state republican affairs.

I know them all too well.

My family also knows Rahm Emmanuel's family. His father was my first pediatrician. I'm oddly connected to both parties.

For a brief stint, I did work for the guy who is now my congressional representative. When I saw how campaigns worked from the inside, I got very disgusted. I managed a team of people whose job it was to cold call random people for support. We had pages and pages of personal information... voting records... info on the households. It was pretty scary. It paid well, but I fell scummy at the end of the day. So I quit.

Both parties function the same in that respect. It's horrible.

[PLATO]

My family also knows Rahm Emmanuel's family.

Are you getting professional help to deal with this? You really shouldn't try and bear that burden alone.

[Sava]

Chicago is mostly just a battle between local area factions. It's solid Democrat, obviously. The Republicans are basically a separate faction. In any large group of people, at least 10-15% will be seriously mentally ill. As long as this remains true, Republicans will always have some support, even in Democratic regional strongholds. There's always going to be racists and oldman cranky pants who want kids off their lawn... who are under the "pull yourself up by your bootstraps" delusion that everything they accomplished in life is solely because of their own hard work. Selfishness and greed are part of the human condition. It's the basis for American conservatism. The GOP may die. But those types of people will just find another political group to be a part of.

[Sava]

Are you getting professional help to deal with this? You really shouldn't try and bear that burden alone.

Why? Oh wait... HUHUHUHUH PARTISAN JOKE HAHAHUHAUAHUAHUHAUHUA

yeah. because democrats... HUH HUHU HUHU


You need a better sense of humor.

[PLATO]

You need a better sense of humor.

Why? Democrats are funny enough for both of us.

THANKS OBAMA!

[Hauldren Collider]

Up until the last election, the county I live in was a solid GOP county. I know my state representative personally (republican). My friend's mom is a very active participant in local and state republican affairs.

I know them all too well.

My family also knows Rahm Emmanuel's family. His father was my first pediatrician. I'm oddly connected to both parties.

For a brief stint, I did work for the guy who is now my congressional representative. When I saw how campaigns worked from the inside, I got very disgusted. I managed a team of people whose job it was to cold call random people for support. We had pages and pages of personal information... voting records... info on the households. It was pretty scary. It paid well, but I fell scummy at the end of the day. So I quit.

Both parties function the same in that respect. It's horrible.

I know what you mean. I tried volunteering for the Romney campaign. I was just calling people randomly that I didn't know on the telephone. I hated it. I know the democrats did exactly the same thing, so in that sense I didn't feel bad about it, but it still made me feel like a jerk, so I only did it twice.

[PLATO]

I know what you mean. I tried volunteering for the Romney campaign. I was just calling people randomly that I didn't know on the telephone. I hated it. I know the democrats did exactly the same thing, so in that sense I didn't feel bad about it, but it still made me feel like a jerk, so I only did it twice.

There are other opportunities for volunteer work than the phone thing...which is irritating as crap on the receiving end.

[Hauldren Collider]

The only thing they had available was door knocking and phone banking. Maybe that's why we lost.

[MRT144]

The only thing they had available was door knocking and phone banking. Maybe that's why we lost.

Yeah, the Obama pot and ***** orgies were legendary. I'm sorry you missed out on them.

[kentonio]

The only thing they had available was door knocking and phone banking. Maybe that's why we lost.

Or maybe it was all the rich kids only did it a couple of times and gave up, while the poor Democrat kids showed some work ethic?

[DaShi]

Or maybe the republicans severely misunderstood how they and many of their candidates are perceived by the majority of Americans.

[Hauldren Collider]

Or maybe it was all the rich kids only did it a couple of times and gave up, while the poor Democrat kids showed some work ethic?

burn

Or maybe it's because I had a job that summer and all the Democrat kids were unemployed volunteers with loads of spare time

Yeah, the Obama pot and ***** orgies were legendary. I'm sorry you missed out on them.

****. I really missed out.

[Wezil]

Don't worry. You'll get a chance to campaign for Hillary in 2016.