latour999

latour999

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Reply to How Liberals are out to Destroy America in Politics JoeUser Forums

David, where are you from exactly? Let me guess, some small town in the Prairies? Don't bash the Prairies. We got Tommy Douglas. And distinguish between provinces. I hate it when we (Manitoba) get lumped in with "the west" during election coverage. Just look where most of the Liberal and

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Reply to How Liberals are out to Destroy America in Politics JoeUser Forums

We have the same problems with a "Liberal" party in Canada .... They go to the point of ridiculuous in policy And practice. Fortunately we have a new Grassroots Conservative Party in opposition who will probably form the next Government. I pray to God that they will bring a brief reprieve of common sense to our nation, at l

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Reply to a few questions in Political Machine PolMach Forums

1. Download the patch. I had that problem until I downloaded the patch. 2. It's not in the game. From what I understand, they took it out for some reason, but forgot to take it out of the instruction manual. 3. A question mark shows up on the map. Fly to the state with the question mark, and it will occur (either you get a good or bad operative, or you get or lose money through lawsuits or rich donors). A red question mark mean

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Reply to What "Pro-Life" means to me. in Politics PolMach Forums

Gideon, I find it interesting that I agree with you on pretty much all 4, yet you describe yourself as a libertarian and I tend to be pretty much a socialist, which tends to make us pretty much opposites. Plus I also favor ending the war on drugs, which has recently claimed the lives of 4 RCMP officers in Alberta. Interesting how we tend to be opposites and agree on this.

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Reply to Random Nuub Question in Political Machine PolMach Forums

Not a lot of people play a lot online. If you have messenger, you can give me your adress and we can play sometime. I assume you like to play as a dem, which kinda sucks because so do I. Oh well, time to bring out Lafollette

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Reply to Just one reason in US Domestic PolMach Forums

good luck with that. It's hard to debate why it is anyone's business (why do I care if Bill and Bob get married?) or how to justify denying people the right to marry. Looks like my country is going to be the 3rd to allow same-sex marriage. Hooray for civil rights!

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Reply to Computer Opponent overspending in Political Machine PolMach Forums

I suspect that the computer tends to cheat on higher difficulties. I did an experiment to try to prove this: First, I created a custom candidate with zero stamina. I tried to play as him, and couldn't leave his home state of Alaska because I needed a point of stamina to fly to another state. My opponent (I think it was Adlai Stevenson) won every state except Alaska, and got something like 97% of the popular vote. Then I played against the

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Reply to Europe doesn't hate Bush, why do you? in Politics PolMach Forums

I find it ironic how people say my country hates America, yet when you look at ProgressiveUSA's first post, you get a bit of a different picture. There, we don't hate America, we just don't like Bush! A little off topic, but whatever

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Reply to America is ready for a Woman President! in Politics PolMach Forums

You need more than just a token female candidate, you need a good female candidate. For example, up here, we've had 3 women candidates with major parties. Alexa McDonough and Audrey McLaughlin (sp?) were both NDP candidates in the 90s, but since the NDP has so small of a base, they never got more than 20%. The other one, Kim Campbell, replaced Mulroney as PM, but by that time, Mulroney was so unpopular, she didn't have a chance. She also was utterl

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Reply to Being Libertarian does NOT equal Drug User in Politics PolMach Forums

I also tend to side on the reduction of drug laws, especially for marijuana. Does that (or the t-shirt I bought in Minneapolis) count me as a drug user? No. Interesting story relating to this though, up here, we have a "third" (we have 4 major parties, so I suppose they would be a 5th party) party, the Marijuana Party. One of their candidates in a riding next to mine was convicted of running a grow op. In court, his lawyer tried to portray

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Reply to The SERIOUS Dangers of a One Party System in Politics PolMach Forums

"Like some people have said, the only major third party candidate was TR in 1912. The rest will be lucky if they get 2% of the vote. " "Oh, and I forgot Ross Peort, but he shouldn't have droped out in '92." What about Lafollette in '24?

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Reply to 3rd Party Candidates? in Political Machine PolMach Forums

Since a 3rd party candidate rarely has even a remote chence of winning (maybe TR in 1912), the only way they will have a substantial impact is if they can get some people in the House and Senate, and they have a balance of power (say, 48 dems, 48 republicans and 4 libertarians), like the NDP in Canada does occaisionally (Though a lot of people might disagree, I would say that the most progress we ever had as a nation was arguably when we had a minority

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Hooray! New Candidates! in Political Machine PolMach Forums

Here are 2 new candidates from the World War 1 era. Robert M. LaFollette was a Republican senator from Wisconsin who ran in 1924 under the Progressive Party (which consisted mostly of the remnants of TR's Bull Moose Party, the farm and labor vote, and Socialists). Eugene V. Debs was a 5 time Socialist party candidate (1900, 1904, 1908, 1912, 1920) who ran his last campaign from prison (he was jailed for opposing WW1) and won 3.4 percent of the vote,

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