BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'

Subject: BS: Voters Go 'Darwin'
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 09 Nov 12 - 05:43 PM

http://news.yahoo.com/evolutionist-charles-darwin-gets-4-000-write-votes-160159056.html

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: Don Firth
Date: 09 Nov 12 - 06:54 PM

Beautiful! There IS intelligent life on this planet!

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: Bill D
Date: 09 Nov 12 - 06:56 PM

**Big Grin**

There's little folk can do about the Broun sort of legislators in some areas... except ridicule them and hope someone finds a sane candidate in 2 years.

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: GUEST
Date: 09 Nov 12 - 07:08 PM

By Barbara Liston and Verna Gates
Thu Nov 8, 2012 9:24am EST

(Reuters) - Florida Democrat Earl K. Wood and Alabama Republican Charles Beasley won their respective elections but they will not take office.

Both men died weeks before the November 6 election yet managed to beat their very much alive opponents by comfortable margins.

Wood died on October 15 from natural causes at age 96, during his campaign for a 12th term as Orange County Tax Collector in Orlando, Florida.

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The rest of the article is at

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/08/us-usa-campaign-dead-idUSBRE8A62AK20121108

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: GUEST,999
Date: 09 Nov 12 - 07:08 PM

That was me.

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: Charley Noble
Date: 09 Nov 12 - 08:38 PM

Let's raise our glasses to the deceased candidates. May they rest in peace, knowing that we still believe in them.

Charley Noble

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: EBarnacle
Date: 09 Nov 12 - 09:34 PM

Talk about spin. He ran unopposed and got a higher level of support than in past years--duh!

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: Elmore
Date: 10 Nov 12 - 01:37 PM

We're moving to the middle-of-nowhere, Georgia shortly, ( think "Deliverance") so Darwin may be our candidate.

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: bobad
Date: 10 Nov 12 - 03:22 PM

Best of luck to you - if you hear banjos start running.

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: GUEST,Guest from Sanity
Date: 11 Nov 12 - 12:39 AM

Don Firth: "Beautiful! There IS intelligent life on this planet!"

Don, WE AGREE!!...Maybe the political scene is evolving!.....maybe past the baboon stage!

GfS

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: Henry Krinkle
Date: 14 Nov 12 - 06:12 AM

I always write in : An Illegal Alien.
For elections with no third party choice.
=(:-( ))

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 14 Nov 12 - 09:05 AM

What kind of excuse for a democracy is it where candidates for office don't have to compete for votes?

For God's sake you should at very least have Monster Raving Loony Party candidates...

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: GUEST,TIA
Date: 14 Nov 12 - 10:19 AM

Hehheh. We do. It's called the Tea Party.

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: GUEST,Grishka
Date: 14 Nov 12 - 01:21 PM

Most ideal leaders have one thing in common: they are long dead.

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: Don Firth
Date: 14 Nov 12 - 05:03 PM

Well, the law stipulates that the election must be held, even if there is only one candidate for the office. This sort of thing often happens in some of the smaller state and municipal elections. In Washington State, for example, there were a few State Supreme Court Judges who ran unopposed, along with a couple of county offices.

What this tends to imply is that the incumbent is doing a sufficiently good job that no one feels impelled to challenge them for the office.

But the option—in all offices, including President of the United States—of writing in names is on the ballot just in case. There HAVE been instances when a write-in candidate has defeated a candidate on the ballot.

Also, it DOES give people an opportunity to give a solo candidate a stern (even if sometimes humorous) message, such as in the case under discussion.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: gnu
Date: 14 Nov 12 - 06:48 PM

Don... "What this tends to imply is that the incumbent is doing a sufficiently good job that no one feels impelled to challenge them for the office."

That don't say much good about Georgia, USA, IMO. Do they have schools? Can people that live there read?

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: Don Firth
Date: 14 Nov 12 - 06:55 PM

Well . . . Georgia. . . .

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: GUEST,Lighter
Date: 14 Nov 12 - 07:24 PM

What it really implies is that no local opposition party can find a challenger who has a chance of winning.

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: GUEST,999
Date: 14 Nov 12 - 07:25 PM

The official flag of Georgia.

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: gnu
Date: 14 Nov 12 - 07:36 PM

Always on my no-mind Georgia?

I just don't understand how people cannot UNDERSATND evolution AND God. They are both simple concepts. One proven and the other is "a good way to go". Accept BOTH and God's yer uncle... Uncle Bob. After all, Bob created evolution... didn't he?

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: Nigel Parsons
Date: 15 Nov 12 - 04:20 AM

The official flag of Georgia State

999's link above is for Georgia (the country)

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: gnu
Date: 15 Nov 12 - 03:44 PM

The country seems like a GREAT PLACE. Warm and sunny... at least that is what the pictures of the nude beaches portray.

Subject: RE: BS: Voters Write in 'Darwin'
From: kendall
Date: 16 Nov 12 - 03:07 PM

We have had a Darwin bumper sticker for quite a while now.

Gnu, your CD is on its way as of today.Postage was less than they told me, I owe you 55 cents.