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Nebraska Legislature Election 2014
AAllen:
--- Quote from: AWick on November 05, 2014, 01:01:42 PM ---So how did the NFOA-PAF endorsed candidates do?
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Working on a post, but quickly we did well better than expected and even better than I thought we would about 10:30 last night. I went through a period of the sky falling and needed friends to cheer me up.
grumpy old man:
I look forward to hearing about your thoughts on how it turned out from a local percpective and if you think any pro 2nd amendment issues will be addressed with this body in the nebraska legislature.
unfy:
--- Quote from: CitizenClark on November 05, 2014, 05:31:26 AM ---Or, alternatively, you could consider that candidates ought to work to earn the votes they get. If Lee Terry had been more of a friend to liberty, he might have gotten those votes. Instead they went to a protest candidate. That is what happens when a mediocre candidate runs in a close contest.
But FWIW, there is no persuasive evidence that Libertarian Party candidates pull more from the right than the left. Libertarianism contains something to offend everyone (who isn't a libertarian, that is): anti-prohibitionism and social liberty to anger the Right, and free markets and personal responsibility to drive the Left up the wall.
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I'll add - the natural conclusion to any vote stealing / siphoning via third party candidates discussion or blame game is to eliminate the third party candidates from the ballots. Seriously, what other eventuality is there ?
It's a discussion that MUST NOT be entertained.
As an aside, everyone at my work voted for Blue Website Guy (TM) (aka Steve Laird). He was the best candidate for the job in our opinion. If he runs next time, one of us will prolly offer to design a site for him heh.
As a really far aside - libertarians really need to learn how to talk to people. "We want to eliminate the Dept of Education!" ZOMG CHILDREN NUUUU!!! No no, show me how the DoE has helped your child. Oh, it hasn't. It doesn't even care about your kid. So why does it exist ? ... Those kinds of things.
DanClrk51:
Well I guess my original prediction came pretty close. We got 5 out of the 6 seats that I had called would be good chances for pickups for Republicans :)
Here's an article from the Omaha World Herald counting the tally:
http://www.omaha.com/news/legislature/pete-ricketts-can-expect-a-more-comfortable-shade-of-red/article_d8587d02-41d1-567d-90b1-a086e0e683d6.html
I believe they are mistaken when they say there is only one Independent though. Ernie Chambers and Al Davis are both independents as far as i know.
CitizenClark:
--- Quote from: DanClrk51 on November 11, 2014, 06:34:58 PM ---Well I guess my original prediction came pretty close. We got 5 out of the 6 seats that I had called would be good chances for pickups for Republicans :)
Here's an article from the Omaha World Herald counting the tally:
http://www.omaha.com/news/legislature/pete-ricketts-can-expect-a-more-comfortable-shade-of-red/article_d8587d02-41d1-567d-90b1-a086e0e683d6.html
I believe they are mistaken when they say there is only one Independent though. Ernie Chambers and Al Davis are both independents as far as i know.
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Last time I checked, Al Davis was registered as a Republican, though he has criticized the two-party system and the way that partisan primaries are conducted in Nebraska.
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