The Rand Paul election? by Jack Hunter

[NACBA]

The Washington Post’s Zachary A. Goldfarb wrote Wednesday, “Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) wasn’t on the ballot Tuesday, but he still emerged as one of the night’s biggest winners.”
Goldfarb noted that although voters went strongly for Republicans, majorities also supported more lenient marijuana laws in the District of Columbia and two states (even in Florida, where an amendment to legalize medical marijuana did not pass, the measure still got 58 percent).
It’s an instructive observation. Why would ballot initiatives traditionally associated with the left do so well at the same time Republicans swept Congress and state elections?
For the same reason recent polls show Millennials are fed up with Democrats, but don’t really like Republicans either. For the same reason Americans are more accepting of same sex marriage than ever. For the same reason most Americans think the war on drugs is a failure. For the same reason there are more self-identified independents than ever.
For the same reason GOP candidates have wanted to appear with Rand Paul more than any other Republican this election.

Read more at http://rare.us/story/the-rand-paul-election/#ocsFDvoMEVm5zQrQ.99

 

[ClydeCoulter]

Maybe, more people than the "polls" showed aligned with RON Paul, and this is blowback of a blackout kind.

 

[whoisjohngalt]

Maybe, more people than the "polls" showed aligned with RON Paul, and this is blowback of a blackout kind.

Yeah, I bet Ron also won every single race in this election cycle via write in campaign. But Diebold made sure those results never saw the light of day with their vote flipping.

 

[Cleaner44]

Step by step...

 

[r3volution 3.0]

Good read