Sen. Markwayne Mullin, a former MMA fighter, had challenged the president of the Teamsters union, Sean O’Brien, but Sanders shut them both down.

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      I live in Oklahoma, and this is most of the answer.

      The reason for that is it’s intentionally difficult to vote if you have a job. A lot of managers won’t give you time even if they are supposed to. The polling places are typically churches, or old folks homes. My polling place is a nursing home, and every time I vote, there is a line of people who can barely remember their own name getting ready to vote, and it’s easy for them because they live there.

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      And what make you think that 50% would vote the way you want them to? Remember that people are fucking retarded. End of thought.

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        In the last congressional election voter turnout was 46%. The last time a midterm was higher than 50% was in the 1910s.

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          You said people won’t vote, you can’t pick and choose when they do vote in higher numbers than you’re saying in presidential elections.

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            So I didn’t make the comment that you initially replied to. I was only offering some data that showed there are a lot of national elections where voter turnout was less than half. It’s true that presidential elections have a higher turnout than midterm but all of the house and ⅓ of the Senate are voted on in every midterm. They’re incredibly important and it’s a fact that less than half of eligible Americans turn out for those elections.