I don't get the "obvious" lesson either. Why would girls only voteBob Butler wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 9:22 pm> I remember little from the third grade. Prominent was that it was
> the year Rockland MA put up its second water tower. There has for
> some time been one, but that year the view from a window was of
> their putting up the second.
> The other major memory was the teacher running a pseudo election
> exercise. She put up one girl to nominate three people. To be
> fair, at least one person had to be of a different sex than the
> nominator. Naturally, she nominated two girls and a boy.
> Naturally, as the girls vote was split, a boy won.
> The winning boy nominated two boys and a girl. The girl won. She
> nominated two girls and a boy. The boy won.
> The lesson the teacher was trying to present was about split
> votes. Clearly, in this set up, it was wise to nominate two
> members of the opposite sex, and one of your own. That way your
> gender would win every time. The opposite gender would always be
> split. Simple 3rd grade exercise.
> The class, likely much to the teacher's chagrin, never figure out
> the obvious lesson.
for girls, and boys only vote for boys? That would only happen if
the teacher told them to vote that way, in which case the whole
experiment is biased, ridiculous and invalid.
Vote-splitting strategies are common for both parties. Once again, thisBob Butler wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 9:22 pm> The Republican adults? They learned it. In Florida during the
> 2020 elections, whenever there was a close race, would invent a
> progressive candidate to split the progressive vote. MSNBC is
> harping on it, calling it voter fraud, spending just enough money
> to split the vote, not enough to actually win. Should it be
> illegal? Or should it just be considered clever?
is ridiculous.
This is ridiculous and doesn't make sense. Trump supporters find the KKKBob Butler wrote: ↑Sun Apr 11, 2021 9:22 pm> But I guess that's the difference between the KKK and the
> Republicans. The KKK will only truly endorse, will spend their
> political influence on candidates they hope will win. The
> Republicans are quite happy splitting the other guy's vote. Much
> easier, cheaper and effective than putting out a message that
> favors the people.
repulsive. A KKK endorsement of a Republican would have no effect on
the Republicans, but would convince the Democrats to vote against the
Republican, and that's the point. A KKK endorsement of a Republican
helps the Democrat, not the Republican.
The KKK is a Democrat party organization, always has been, always will
be. For a century, Democrats in the KKK spent the century lynching,
torturing, raping, and killing blacks. Then they learned how to
enslave blacks anyway by impoverishing the women and forcing them to
obey the their White Democrat Masters to get welfare. At that point,
the KKK transitioned into an organization to endorse Republicans to
help the Democrats. The Republicans are and always have been the
party of equality and freedom, while the Democrats are and always have
been the party of hatred, bigotry and slavery.