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Posts Made By: Maurice Clark

October 27, 2026 01:26 PM Forum: Politics

WH press secretary ousted

Posted By Maurice Clark
Originally Posted by Jim Moscheck

That's nothing compared to custom cabinetry design guru, biomedical engineer, and high end speaker/audio designer.

With all of these claims to fame Davis must be Rich.
Don't forget,  he also used to boast of his fantastic education,  claiming he was better educated than anyone else on the forum.

October 30, 2026 01:28 AM Forum: Politics

Chekov and Picard

Posted By Maurice Clark
First Chekov and now Picard. It has been a sad week for Star Trek fans. RIP Walter Koenig and Sir Patrick Stewart.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/cq23dve8dgv9t

October 31, 2026 07:02 AM Forum: Politics

Abdul El Sayed is THE perfect Leftist Democrat Candidate as he holds ALL the attributes that the Dem party loves. He hates Israel, he sides w/ terrorists like Hamas, he supports the Muslim Brotherhood, he lied about being a Doctor, his best friend is a t

Posted By Maurice Clark
Originally Posted by Richard Davis

but then I haven't checked into M104 yet. 
Be good if you did check into M104. That would increase the average IQ of this forum enormously!

November 1, 2026 12:36 AM Forum: Politics

Trump Erupts!

Posted By Maurice Clark
Originally Posted by James Brown

Even though I totally understand the feeling, I worry that "punishing Trump" will backfire in 2028.  If Congress spends all of its time investigating, impeaching, or talking incessantly about prosecuting Trump for any number of corrupt acts outside of his authority as president, instead of trying to address the economy and foreign affairs, look out for a MAGA sweep in 2028,  I am afraid that some of the important lessons of 2020-2024 have not been learned.
Very true. I totally agree.

November 2, 2026 03:28 AM Forum: Politics

Election predictions

Posted By Maurice Clark
Originally Posted by James Brown

Doesn't the Petola campaign's dirty trick bother you at all?  Imagine you were an undecided in Alaska who craves an honest politician.
Hi James, 

I agree with you that this was a stupid move by Petola's campaign,  and one that can only be detrimental to her election chances.  However,  all the gnashing of teeth and howls of indignation from the Republicans is really hypocritical I feel, since this sort of dirty tricks has been going on for decades. See here for a few examples.  https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2026/Items/Oct30-1.html

In Australia we had similar shenanigans.  We have compulsory voting (you are fined if you do not vote) and voting uses the preferential system. ( what you call ranked choice). Originally candidates were listed alphabetically,  so candidates would change their name before the election in order to appear first on the ballot and so get what we called the "donkey vote". Ie. Those who just numbered the boxes 1,2 3 etc without knowing who the candidates were. That was finally stopped when the electoral commission switched to listing candidates randomly. 

Have fun Tuesday night. Make sure you have plenty of popcorn! 🙃

Maurice

November 3, 2026 12:30 AM Forum: Politics

Election predictions

Posted By Maurice Clark
Originally Posted by Russ Carroll

My understanding is that there is a top-2 runoff if no candidate gets more 50% of the vote, so it seems immaterial to me.
Hi Russ,

I don't think this is the case since Alaska uses ranked choice voting. If no candidate has over 50% in the first count, the votes for the lowest candidate are distributed to the other candidates according to their second preference. 

This continues until only 2 candidates remain, at which point one of them must have over 50%. 

Cheers 

Maurice

November 3, 2026 01:16 PM Forum: Politics

Election predictions

Posted By Maurice Clark
Could be an interesting day/night. Are the polls correct or not? Either way, I hope you all have plenty of popcorn!

November 4, 2026 04:34 AM Forum: Politics

Total Repudiation of Trump

Posted By Maurice Clark
This can onlybe seen as a rejection of trump's policies.  The war with Iran with the resulting spike in fuel prices leading to inflation,  the imposition of tariffs,  the excessive actions by ICE, trump's obsession with building grandiose monuments to himself, just to mention a few.

November 4, 2026 05:26 AM Forum: Politics

Total Repudiation of Trump

Posted By Maurice Clark
I see on various blogs that people are speculating on Alito retiring so that Republicans can ram through a replacement before they lose control of the senate.  

Personally I cannot see them making such a move. It would completely destroy any support for the supreme court.

November 4, 2026 09:34 AM Forum: Politics

Total Repudiation of Trump

Posted By Maurice Clark
It looks like Petola's trick of trying to confuse Republican voters may have cost her some votes. On the other hand,  Mississippi is a dead heat. Would not have expected that!

Now that the midterms are all but done, I suppose everyone will be starting on the '28 presidential election.  That could be quite messy on both sides.... maga or non-maga? Progressive or centrist? Will trump still be a force? Could be a fun couple of years!

Meanwhile,  I wonder where Richie is hiding.

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