{"id":775,"date":"2004-11-03T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2004-11-03T18:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2004\/11\/03\/top-ten-punchlines-to-dirty-election\/"},"modified":"2016-10-29T05:51:22","modified_gmt":"2016-10-29T05:51:22","slug":"top-ten-punchlines-to-dirty-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davetraynor.com\/wp2\/2004\/11\/03\/top-ten-punchlines-to-dirty-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Ten Punchlines to Dirty Election Jokes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today is election day in the US and I can’t believe the kind of crap that’s about to go on in the polling stations across the country. What a way to have an election. If this kind of stuff happened in any other country, the US would refuse to recognize the results…but that’s the way it is in a “mature” democracy, I guess.

I might have more to say on the election process as the day continues, but I’ll probably wait to see what happens.

In the meantime:

I came across this list on <a href=”http:\/\/andrewcoyne.com\/archives\/004032.php<\/a> “>Andrew Coyne’s blog<\/a>…from the Letterman show.

I haven’t had much to say about the US election for awhile, but I couldn’t resist sharing this little gem.


Top Ten Punch Lines to Dirty Election Jokes\u00c2\u00a0 <\/B>  \u00c2\u00a0

<\/B>From The Late Show w\/ David Letterman:
10. "With a poll like that, I’m suprised he can gallup at all."
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9. "She starts chanting, ‘four more minutes! four more minutes!’"

8. "That’s not the voting lever, but don’t stop pulling."

7. "This isn’t how it looks — I’m just joining a third party."

6. I prefer Bush, but I don’t know who I’ll vote for."

5. "So that’s where Katherine Harris was hiding the Al Gore votes."

4. "Unfortunately, his margin of error was plus or minus three inches."

3. "Get used to it, honey — we live in a swing state."

2. "I thought you had trouble maintaining an election."

1. "I saw your sister with Mary Cheney — there was no sign of Dick."<\/I>
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