Don't be stupid. It wasn't the voting machines that won Handel the election.

By GaYellowDawg

It's because it was a heavily Republican district, and Republican voters, just like the politicians they elect, always put party before country. You couldn't get most southern Republicans to vote for any Democrat over any Republican with a car battery and wet alligator clips. They just don't fucking do it. You could run Josef Stalin, Pol Pot, Genghis Khan, or a big old cow shit in the South and it would win elections in a lot of districts. I'm not kidding. If you dressed someone up in a cow shit costume and ran a campaign as "Vote Cow Shit in 2018. I Love Guns, Jesus, and Murka, and Fuck Democrats", then Cow Shit would win elections all over the south in landslides. LANDSLIDES.

Look at my handle. Pun on yellow dog Democrat. You know the origin of that, don't you? When the Democratic Party was conservative and racist, you couldn't get a Republican elected in the South, ever. When the parties traded places with respect to ideology, southern voters flipped and now it's just the reverse. And it's much, much, much worse with Fox News and right wing hate radio rationalizing all their dumbass votes and the awful fucking bigotry.

It's the fucking South, y'all. When you have a region full of people waving flags over a failed rebellion that got the region shitstomped over 150 years ago, how the hell can you expect rational behavior? I was born in Georgia. Raised in Tennessee. I know my people, and they are fucked up. Clannish and fucked up. They're wonderful people if they recognize you as their own, and are the worst shitheads on earth if they don't. You don't need Russian intervention or hacked voting machines in the South for even a mean, obnoxious, self-righteous, bigoted, judgmental, out of touch asshole like Karen Handel to win. All you have to do is put an (R) beside her name and stand back. It's a goddamn miracle that Ossoff was within 20% in that district.

So damn, just stop it with the voting machines bullshit. You want to know the main reason we lost? Because of 40% voter turnout. If Democrats and/or progressives - everyone here obviously excepted - would get off their stupid asses and just go vote, we'd win a lot more elections and even maybe pull an upset here and there. The higher the turnout, the better Democrats do. I don't know what the solution to that is. Sometimes I think we need to put a shock collar around every progressive in the country and zap the fuck out of them until they go goddamn VOTE. Fuck, I'm disgusted with tonight.