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Democrats Crowdsourcing To Vote Palin In Primaries

Posted by timothy on from the can-you-see-the-primary-from-here? dept.

SharpieMarker writes "In what could be the most extreme and influential crowdsourcing project ever, Democrats are beginning to organize to purposely vote for Palin in the 2012 Republican primaries. Their theory is by having Palin as an opponent, Obama will have the best odds at winning reelection. Recent polls have shown that Obama comfortably leads Palin by 10-20 points, but Obama is statistically tied with Romney and barely ahead of Huckabee. They even have a state-by-state primary voting guide to help Democrats navigate various states' rules for voting Palin in Republican primaries."

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  1. As a voter who normally leans Democrat... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I'm not sure if I can support this. I think it perverts the process.

    1. Re:As a voter who normally leans Democrat... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      The process doesn't matter when the system is already f-ed up.

    2. Re:As a voter who normally leans Democrat... by SerpentMage · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Its already been subverted, explain gerrymandering.

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      "You can't make a race horse of a pig"
      "No," said Samuel, "but you can make very fast pig"
    3. Re:As a voter who normally leans Democrat... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Yea let's have a 1 party dictatorship instead.

      Some say it's already one party -- the Corporate party.

  2. WCPGW by Nerdfest · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What could possibly go wrong?

  3. Why give them the publicity by DocSavage64109 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    I thought it was rather embarrassing for the republicans when they tried these tactics against Obama. It saddens me that apparently some democrats are sinking to their level. Really, I can't imagine this being successful anyway.

    1. Re:Why give them the publicity by peragrin · · Score: 5, Insightful

      They are all politicians. They all play the same stupid game. The real question is why would anyone want to be president. you get all the blame none of the glory, and if someone 20 layers of management under you screws up you still get blamed.

      Being president is worthless. Everyone knows the only winning move is to not to play.

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      i thought once I was found, but it was only a dream.
  4. What these Democrats don't realize... by dachshund · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ... is that elections are largely driven by economic fundamentals and (to some degree) random chance. Meaning, there's a non-trivial probability that Palin might beat Obama. I'm not trying to be an ass about Palin, because I'm sure she's a nice person in the right context, but she has not demonstrated anything close to the knowledge and/or responsibility that I would expect in a Presidential candidate. She doesn't appear to have taken the lessons offered by the '08 election in terms of becoming more informed or dedicated --- all she seems to have learned is that she can get traction by attacking anything remotely related to the left wing. That's great for a pundit, not so great for the President of a large country.

    In the long run a Palin presidency would be a disaster for Democrats and Republicans, not to mention Americans in general. These people shouldn't flirt with disaster.

  5. Been there, done that by nutshell42 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    in 1933 the German Conservatives decided to support Hitler as chancellor to destroy the Nazi movement by confronting its ludicrous proposals with the cold reality of real life government.

    The Nazis decided that if their plans weren't realistic, reality would have to budge.

    Not saying (not even implying, hi there FoxNews) that Palin's a Nazi, will create a totalitarian state of some kind or other. I am saying that candidate Palin could become president Palin and Democrats would have noone but themselves to blame.

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    Don't think of it as a flame---it's more like an argument that does 3d6 fire damage
  6. Re:Carter lead Reagan 2 years out too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    At this stage what we really need is for the Democrats to grow a spine, and tell the Republicans to put up or shut up.

    Democrats have had control of the Presidency, Senate, and House for 2 years now and things have not gotten better at all, some would say worse.

    So tell us again who has to put up or shut up?

  7. Hold your Horses there SharpieMarker by pfrCalif · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "In what could be the most extreme and influential crowdsourcing project ever ..

    Isn't it a little early to call something like this "the most extreme and influential crowdsourcing"? Not that it's the end-all metric of popularity, but it has 16 follows so far 25 facebook likes for god's sake. Slow down a bit before you hurt yourself.

  8. This phrase is the one that's stuck with me ... by Krishnoid · · Score: 5, Insightful
    "It is better to vote for what you want and not get it than to vote for what you don't want and get it." -- Eugene V. Debs

    Not sure who he was, but it's made me recast these kinds of things in a different light.