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The way Putin runs elections is the way Drumpf can only wet-dream wish to do likewise here:
By Anton Troianovski March 18 at 7:22 AM Email the author
MOSCOW — From the Arctic to the International Space Station, Russia rolled out an elaborate presidential-election-day spectacle on Sunday designed to show the breadth of Vladimir Putin’s public support as Russians cast ballots in a vote that appears sure to extend their president’s tenure to 2024.
Putin’s opponents on Sunday’s ballot in the Russian presidential election include a nationalist, a Communist, and two liberals. But Putin barely campaigned, opposition activist Alexei Navalny was barred from the ballot, and a landslide victory giving Putin a fourth, six-year presidential term appears certain.
Instead, the biggest question as Russians went to the polls on Sunday was the level of turnout. While independent polls show that most Russians continue to approve of Putin as president, a lack of suspense or popular opposition candidates threatened to keep people home. The Kremlin, analysts say, is looking for high turnout to deliver legitimacy for another Putin term.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/russia-scrambles-to-get-voters-to-polls-to-legitimize-election-ahead-of-expected-putin-landslide/2018/03/18/f8d31426-2963-11e8-a227-fd2b009466bc_story.html?utm_term=.225d0c9f504c
The Gadfly is starting a betting pool -- since we know Kremlin-sponsored polls being talked about in state-sponsored Russian media have been being indicative of a 80% approval rating of Putin by Russian voters, you know it would look pretty fishy if he won with 80% of the vote, right?
So what number do you think Pooty-poot will be comfortable with telling the world that he won by? And when The Gadfly says "comfortable," he means, what winning percentage number has to be enough to appease Putin's Drumpf'-like ego?
The Gadfly is going to say. . . -- they eventually announce that Putin announces wins with at least 55 to 65% of the vote. You know .. just that right sweet spot number that isn't ridiculously obvious of ratfucking, but just enough to allow for begrudging appeasement of the rubes.
Anything less than that, The Gadfly would have to think that the sonofabitch is just sadistically fucking with world then.
Oh, and one last thing. Why did not Donald Trump authorize U.S. national security entities to ratfuck Vladimir Putin's sham election, like Putin perpetrated on America? It has been over a year since the debate was settled that Putin meddled in our electoral process. And not a fucking thing has been done to address it. Not one single retaliatory U.S. action.
And don't even mention the stupid sanctions, the ones Congress authorized and which Drumpf refused to implement until Putin's chemical weapons attack on the UK forced him to finally, and begrudgingly, put them in to action. And Drumpf couldn't even make that official announcement himself, he sent his Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin to to issue the public statement and Drumpf's team put out some weak, meek banal presidential statement about being on the U.K.'s side.
The whole world is watching what this deceitful buffoon is doing to this country dear readers, and they're beginning to feel very uneasy about it. You should be as well.
Anyhow -- feel free to add your bet to the pool.
----TFG
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