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Post by papaof2 on Apr 28, 2014 12:25:18 GMT -6
The biggest problem with political jokes is that so many of them get elected...
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Post by pbbrown0 on Aug 31, 2016 17:24:19 GMT -6
My oldest son was a congressional page the same year one Hollywood celebrity, whom I will not name, was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives. As a page he was privy to many confidential conversations with and among congressmen. The only words my son heard spoken by this new congressman, which he went about repeating over and over as if in a daze the whole year, were "I can't believe I'm a G.. D... congressman."
'nuff said.
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Post by blackpowderguy on Jan 19, 2017 12:11:29 GMT -6
A friend of mine told me I should get involved in politics. I told him some friend you are.
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Post by papaof2 on Jan 19, 2017 15:31:56 GMT -6
Getting involved in politics can be as simple as handing out literature or making phone calls. I was "the IT guy" for a friend's run for Congress some years ago. I even wrote campaign management software and survey software that ran on a DOS PC (it was a long time ago and we had a very small budget). The survey software did autodial using a modem and prompted the person doing the calling based on the called person's responses to the canned questions.
We had a robo-call unit powered by a PC - one smart enough to recognize the "beep" of an answering machine, something many of the current robo-call units either don't have or don't have activated. My friend got about 1/3 of the vote but only spent 1/10 the money of the incumbent - my friend's ideas on tactics and strategy were very good, even in little things such as envelopes being addressed "by hand" (using a script font and a laser printer that could handle envelopes for mailouts). We worked in the campaign of the next person to run against that incumbent and he was successful - having more money usually helps ;-)
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Post by pbbrown0 on Jan 19, 2017 16:42:10 GMT -6
After the latest U.S. presidential election, there was considerable lamentation about the "winner" actually getting fewer votes than the "looser". Astute political observers noted that the "winner's" campaign was focused on a strategy to win the election (the electoral vote) rather than to win the popularity poll (votes at the polling booths). -- Interestingly the Pew Research Center estimates that about 18% of those popular votes are cast by illegitimate voters anyway.
The number of popular votes cast for third or fourth party candidates in the latest U.S. presidential election far exceeded the margin of votes (polling booth votes) separating the two front runner candidates.
A politician who once campaigned for election as president touting the elimination of the U.S. Department of Energy, is now in line to be appointed as the Director of the U.S. Department of Energy.
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Post by papaof2 on Sept 16, 2017 15:06:26 GMT -6
Seen on Facebook:
It's such an intellectual rush when Hillary enters a room - the average IQ drops by 50 points.
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Post by 9idrr on Sept 17, 2017 14:05:16 GMT -6
Seen on Facebook: It's such an intellectual rush when Hillary enters a room - the average IQ drops by 50 points. Aw, come on now, you know that if that room was the House or Senate Chamber, you'd be hard put to come up with a cumulative IQ of 50 in the first place! |
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