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I don't think we should remove the party names from the ballot. What I think is happening is that both sides have been convinced that the other side is the worst possible thing that can happen to the country. And in doing that, we have people who believe they need to vote red or blue to protect us from the opposite. When people feel an existential crisis is at hand, they are more comfortable voting for a candidate with about 50% overlap in beliefs to help avoid that other person. And since we have been increasingly polarized ever since the 90s, I would say that we face a problem where the major parties don't even have the right information for how they should evolve, because their voters are too scared of telling them.

I think that the data is whats important. Republicans and Democrats have formed their parties around a loose agenda of what they expect that voters care about. One of the primary sources of voter intelligence for prospective politicians are the actual votes from last time around. If you feel that the Republican and Democratic platforms are unsuitable to serve our country, it is your duty to vote for candidates which stand for the things that you believe are missing. That's how democracy works if people do it correctly. If someone votes for red or blue because they want to be aligned with a winner, they don't understand what they are doing.

Brother 2019 that's the same as me. Some say it was the boards best ever recruitment class

Shout out to American University's Max Leete who wrestles with extreme visual impairment

It's not relevant for a single voter in the slightest.

If anyone wonders why we will have two atrocious candidates again, you can blame anyone who ever voted for party over person. These people are idiots

Whether or not they have a chance of winning is entirely irrelevant. A vote is just information sent from a person to the political world about they care about. It's up to politicians to incorporate those views into their platform or not. It saddens me how many people truly don't get it

two total I guess: one to Dean and one to @nhs67

Beard was beating Dean and the gap was widening in the room. Beard was big man on campus but graciously gave the starting spot to Dean out of sympathy. Whenever Beard sees Dean in public, he gives him a noogie

Wrestlestat has started to show new entrants to the transfer portal for next year. https://www.wrestlestat.com/transferportal 125: Dominic Chavez, Presbyterian, Best wins over Anthony Molton X2 and Drew West; Two years remaining of eligibility 125: Zac Jacaruso, George Mason, Best win over Anthony Knox (while in HS); has not yet wrestled a college match 184: James Lledo, Pittsburgh You can view the rest on the link above. Just noticed they started adding to the list after it had been blank for quite some time

Both of the two major parties are so incredibly pathetic. Hopefully we don't see weak people who are bullied into the idea that votes only matter if for D or R. This is a braindead idea, and if you encounter someone that thinks that, you can probably discount most other things they have to say.

Good point. Maybe kicks over the scoring table and throws a haymaker at the ref after he wins and they take two team points

Binghamton over Navy by a single point in the team dual. There weren't any major upsets and there weren't any ducks or notable absentees. Binghamton is really well coached and has limited resources.

Fair point - and according to wrestlestat, both Moran and Gallagher teched him twice on the same day by the same score But Shinhoster was legit

Even if just a handful, there are always a few who I am convinced would AA. Christian Guzman of North Central is one this year. Even his backup Evan Spacht is an incredible wrestler - so they have great room competition at the weight to keep both guys sharp. Last year there was the guy from Wisconsin-Whitewater - Jarritt Shinhoster

@MPhillips and @Ohio Elite vs @nhs67 125: Michael DeAugustino dec Brendan McCrone 3-0 133: Nick Bouzakis dec Dylan Ragusin 3-3 141: Jesse Mendez dec Sergio Lemley 6-3 149: Austin Gomez dec Dylan D'Emilio 6-6 157: Will Lewan dec Isaac Wilcox 9-6 165: Cam Amine dec Bryce Hepner 12-6 174: Rocco Welsh dec Shane Griffith 12-9 184: Jaden Bullock dec Seth Shumate 15-9 197: Luke Geog major Bobby Striggow 15-11 285: Lucas Davison dec Nick Feldman 18-11

Since Smith beat Ramos already at CKLV (or Midlands or something), he has no incentive from the sport to compete against Ramos. Although most of us would frown upon that kind of behavior

Strategic duck most likely

Congrats on the W, @Southend. Any idea if Glicher is out for thr year or just temporarily? Also in the future, between he and Lillard, they have two excellent young wrestlers. Any idea who goes where after this year?

I could be wrong but that's how I remember it. Still they were on pace for team victory. I think it's the right call if they feel he had a serious injury concern

Pitzer was losing by something around 9-2 at that point. He could have likely finished the match without getting pinned but coach prioritized his wrestlers health over the dual outcome.

Will Manning sign off on it

It's a different perspective on life when something like that happens. You let fewer opportunities pass you by. I say this as someone who faced a near death experience as a young man and incorporated that into my life philosophy afterwards

Otto looks very much undersized at 197. Supposedly he won the spot, despite being at a lower weight class, because he was decisively beating Tal Shahar in the room