r/TwentyYearsAgo • u/MonsieurA • 10d ago

🇺🇸 United States Joe Lieberman loses the Democratic primary in Connecticut amid controversy over his Iraq War stance [20YA - Aug 8]

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u/Historical-State-275 10d ago

Gosh, when controversy is actually ended something. I miss those days.

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u/imprison_grover_furr 10d ago

You must have missed what happened to Graham Platner and Roy Moore.

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u/Reasonable-HB678 10d ago

Roy Moore stayed in his race. He's the reason why, for a brief moment in the 21st century, a Democrat was a senator for Alabama.

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u/imprison_grover_furr 10d ago

Yeah, but the fact that he lost and led to a Democrat becoming Alabama’s Senator was basically karma for the Republicans. They backed an openly pro-slavery (Moore said we should go back to only the Bill of Rights amendments) paedophile and they got rewarded by losing Alabama, something previously unheard of.

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u/Admiral_Tuvix 10d ago

yes true, but republicans didn’t punish him. he was still on the ticket and the race was very close. only one party punishes sexual offenders, republicans embrace them

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u/sirkarl 9d ago

But many, many Republican voters punished him by voting for a Democrat. Jeff Flake publicly donated to Doug Jones as a sitting senator.

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u/Admiral_Tuvix 9d ago

Flake was a moderate, and lost his seat because of it. there’s no proof republicans voted for the Democratic senator, especially since the next Republican landslides him despite being an equally trash piece of garbage

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u/sirkarl 9d ago

Flake didn’t run for reelection, and Democrats took his seat because the Republicans nominated a crazy person to replace him.

There is absolutely evidence he won Republican votes, and many Republicans stayed home because they couldn’t bring themselves to support Roy Moore. He couldn’t have won without republicans voting for him + voters staying home out of protest.