Frigidus wrote:Captain_Scarlet wrote:JJM wrote: In an election a candidate must git a certain amount of signatures from voters in order to git there name on the ballot. Obama challenged his opponents signatures by coming up with reasons why he did not think they were valid such as some they can't be incersov or they can only be incersov I can't remember witch one and other reasons.
He took away the voters right to choose.
please explain
in American English
Haha, right? Incersov...I can figure out git, but I have no friggin idea what the hell that is.
I have a feeling incersov means registered...it took some digging, and all i have is the context from this:
Also, im not sure Obama challenged presidential signatures...I believe it was the chicago senate ones he challenged...and McCain did the same thing in his campaign, which allowed him to run unopposed in his senate election:
SUMMARY: In a special report on Sen. Barack Obama, referring to Obama's challenges to signatures on his opponents' nominating petitions during his 1996 run for the Illinois state Senate, CNN's Suzanne Malveaux described Obama as "an avid student of Chicago-style politics" and aired remarks by a Chicago reporter calling the practice "cutthroat." But CNN's special on Sen. John McCain made no mention of McCain's reported petition challenges in at least two U.S. Senate races, aired no one labeling McCain "cutthroat" for those challenges, or at any point pronounced McCain an avid student of Arizona-style politics for those challenges.
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During CNN's August 20 election special report Obama Revealed, host Suzanne Malveaux said of Barack Obama's 1996 run for the Illinois state Senate: "Successfully challenging her signatures, Obama knocked Alice Palmer, a revered political figure, off the ballot, as well as all three other candidates. While Obama's campaign today promotes him as a different kind of politician, back then he was an avid student of Chicago-style politics." The program included remarks from Chicago Tribune reporter David Mendell, author of Obama: From Promise to Power (Amistad, 2007), who said, "In the end, what happened is we saw the first real example of Barack Obama's cutthroat nature when it came to advancing his own career in politics." But challenging a potential opponent's eligibility is not just "Chicago-style" politics; it is everywhere-style politics -- including Arizona. And yet, while in its back-to-back specials on the parties' presumptive presidential nominees, CNN highlighted allegations by Mendell and others that Obama engaged in "cutthroat" politics, which Malveux suggested were endemic to Chicago, CNN made no mention of Sen. John McCain's reported petition challenges in at least two U.S. Senate races, aired no one labeling McCain "cutthroat" for those challenges, or at any point pronounced McCain an avid student of Arizona-style politics for those challenges -- even though host John King, like Malveaux with Obama, reported on McCain's prior races.
Recounting McCain's 1992 re-election to the U.S. Senate, King reported that McCain "saw his re-election as vindication and believed the dark days of the Keating Five scandal were over," and asserted, "McCain wanted a fresh start." But unlike CNN's discussion of Obama's state Senate race, King did not point out that, after former Arizona Gov. Evan Mecham filed a petition with 16,085 signatures to appear on the Arizona ballot, according to a September 1992 Los Angeles Times article, "McCain filed a challenge to the petitions." In addition, a July 20, 1998, Roll Call article (accessed through the Nexis news database) reported, "McCain will run unopposed in his Sept. 8 primary following the capitulation of his lone GOP opponent, Phoenix businessman Bert Tollefson," and that "McCain's campaign checked Tollefson's signatures and found 1,453 that came from Democrats, members of other parties or people who were not registered to vote."
