re: While Ou is being racist, BAMA is making progress!

I don't think anyone is saying The Machine is inherently bad. All it is is a voting bloc, though individual members were free to vote for whomever they wanted. It was almost always The Machine backed candidate. The Machine backed candidate winning almost always won because of apathy with the general student body, moreso than The Machine itself.

This doesn't seem like a big deal to people not familiar with Alabama, but to those that go and went to Alabama, it's a pretty huge deal. Read last night there was turnout of almost 15,000 students. That is mind blowing to someone like me that went to Bama when there were only around 18,000 students and the only ones that ever voted were Machine members.