From vt.Buzz
Independent Anthony Pollina finished second in the governor's race over Democrat Gaye Symington by 257 votes. Of course, both of them are well behind Republican Jim Douglas, by like 100,000 votes.Liberty Union Party has lost its minor party status. To maintain it, a party has to garner at least 5% of the vote (not including the vote for Congress).
The results offers some interesting fodder. To wit:
- Pollina discounts the fact that his 21 percent of the vote showing is less than the 25 percent he received in 2002 in the lt. gov. race. You'll recall, too, that during the campaign he made note of that 25 percent and said that if those 25 percent bring a friend, he'll win. Well, the 56,564 people who voted for him in 2002 don't seem to have many friends. He had 69,791 votes this time.
- Symington pointed out that every Republican governor in the country won re-election last week, a suggestion that incumbency prevailed over the Obama wave in all governor's races, not just here. Except that there were only a few Republican governors up for election this year - Vermont, Utah, North Dakota and Indiana - and those other states are hardly Obama-friendly in the way Vermont is. Vermont, I would venture to guess without even checking, is the only state where the Democrat came in third in the governor's race.
- Progs took it on the chin in the congressional race. Thomas Hermann came in fourth, after winner Peter Welch and independents Mike Bethel and Jerry Trudell.
So what does this mean? Not a lot. The Liberty Union Party doesn't have to bother with a primary in the next election and might get invited to fewer debates, though they were not on a lot of people's invite list this yearAlso on the debate-ignore list were Sam Young, Cris Ericson, Tom O'Connor, Larkin Forney, just to name of few of the candidates who took the initiative to gather signatures and get on the ballot. What the Buzzer hardly mentions is the power of money.
I argued with a Press Reporter, whose name I won't mention, that SOME people, including MANY Presidential candidates, refer to the United States as a "Christian Nation" DESPITE the "separation of Church & State" which also SHOULD mean "separation of synagogue and state";
ReplyDeleteand I explained that in every debate
where the person in control of the invitations
did not invite candidates with
tiny campaign budgets,
they were either
NOT Christians
OR Christians who were clearly SINNERS
because
in the New Testament Bible
James Chapter 2
it clearly states that Christians
DO NOT give preferential treatment to people with gold and other material possessions
(like big campaign budgets)
so therefore,
quite logically,
the people in control of the candidate debates in Vermont
are NOT Christians,
or they are SINNERS.
So much for a "Christian Nation"!
PLEASE SEND ME OODLES AND OODLES OF CAMPAIGN DONATIONS!
"IN KIND" CONTRIBUTIONS COUNT!
AN "IN KIND" CONTRIBUTION IS SOMETHING OTHER THAN MONEY, LIKE A VAN TO CAMPAIGN IN, A MINK COAT TO WEAR TO A DEBATE, etc.
Start now! Send me those dollarinies!
Cris Ericson
879 Church Street
Chester, Vermont 05143-9375
(802)875-4038
Hurry!
It looks like the Jewish State of Israel is trying to kill me, they've got a poster on the internet out on me that looks like an advertisement for a hit man!
http://antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/35147/USA-_Candidate\'s_essay_prompt
Forget free speech in Vermont, the Jewish State of Israel, Israeli State Forum CFCA is obviously allegedly threatening me for stating the truth, and they do it out of context, taking a fraction of a sentence out of context.
2010 VOTE CRIS ERICSON 2010
http://crisericson.com
I argued with a Press Reporter, whose name I won't mention, that SOME people, including MANY Presidential candidates, refer to the United States as a "Christian Nation" DESPITE the "separation of Church & State" which also SHOULD mean "separation of synagogue and state";
ReplyDeleteand I explained that in every debate
where the person in control of the invitations
did not invite candidates with
tiny campaign budgets,
they were either
NOT Christians
OR Christians who were clearly SINNERS
because
in the New Testament Bible
James Chapter 2
it clearly states that Christians
DO NOT give preferential treatment to people with gold and other material possessions
(like big campaign budgets)
so therefore,
quite logically,
the people in control of the candidate debates in Vermont
are NOT Christians,
or they are SINNERS.
So much for a "Christian Nation"!
PLEASE SEND ME OODLES AND OODLES OF CAMPAIGN DONATIONS!
"IN KIND" CONTRIBUTIONS COUNT!
AN "IN KIND" CONTRIBUTION IS SOMETHING OTHER THAN MONEY, LIKE A VAN TO CAMPAIGN IN, A MINK COAT TO WEAR TO A DEBATE, etc.
Start now! Send me those dollarinies!
Cris Ericson
879 Church Street
Chester, Vermont 05143-9375
(802)875-4038
Hurry!
It looks like the Jewish State of Israel is trying to kill me, they've got a poster on the internet out on me that looks like an advertisement for a hit man!
http://antisemitism.org.il/eng/events/35147/USA-_Candidate\'s_essay_prompt
Forget free speech in Vermont, the Jewish State of Israel, Israeli State Forum CFCA is obviously allegedly threatening me for stating the truth, and they do it out of context, taking a fraction of a sentence out of context.
2010 VOTE CRIS ERICSON 2010
http://crisericson.com
Wow. There's Cris. Thought you had moved to Israel.
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