Why Bernie Sanders’s Win in Michigan Is Huge.  The results prove it's far too early to declare the nomination contest over.

Fine since we're doing this bullshit, here's the NH Bar association on the 100 foot zone: https://www.nhbar.org/publications/display-journal-issue.asp?id=382 (friendly help: search for "100 foot". It's a dense and boring publication and I don't think that this is our real argument.

You were, I believe, talking down while citing the law improperly. I agree you were within a small margin of error, but you were pretending I didn't know anything because I didn't have the NH statute at hand, while you clearly just googled the MA standard and then improperly cited it. We could and should call a draw here.

My point is that President William Jefferson Clinton did not prevent people from voting. That is a serious allegation and no one has proved or supported it with any real citations. We've shifted our argument into whether or not Bill Clinton used a bullhorn a few feet too close to a polling location. This is an entirely different argument. IF this is our argument, my response is, "I don't care". If he prevented people from voting or unduly delayed them from voting, I do care. But these too arguments are separate. It does matter that we're shifting, because it means we're changing the goal posts. Bill Clinton disenfranchises voters should be a fucking problem, Bill Clinton lacks the spacial recognition to understand the difference between 125 feet and 150 feet should not be a problem.

90% of scandals in campaigns are bullshit and this is one of them. Bernie's are of equal, if not greater measure, but I have never hyped them up. Data theft, newspaper endorsements, union pins, etc. Shit happens and each side tries to blow up the other, but this like all of the above are meaningless. The accusation that President William Jefferson Clinton prevented people from voting is, however, not. It is a real accusation and I will stick up for this because I do not believe that disenfranchisement is a matter we can treat this loosely. It is real and it affects hundreds of thousands of Americans every year. To equate WJC's actions with voter disenfranchisement is an abomination in my opinion. It is a simplistic view of the world that draws attention to flashy incidents and ignores the real problems.

I don't want to respond after having typed out a long, reasoned reply to the back-and-forth about my "BS a bullshiter" comment, but I think we're on the same level. I think you're defending you position as illogically as I am mine.

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