Noah at Nero Fiddled brings to our attention this notable point from a story in today’s WaPo on the so-called “Religous Right” turnout last Tuesday [emphasis ours]…
In fact, white evangelical Protestants turned out this week as heavily as they did in 2004, making up roughly 24 percent of the electorate both times. “This is a solidly Republican voting bloc that there was reason to believe might stay home. Given the polling before the election, the amazing thing was that the Democratic swing wasn’t bigger,” said John C. Green, a senior fellow at the nonpartisan Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
“The amazing thing was that the Democratic swing wasn’t bigger.”
As we move forward with forensic investigations of what happened last Tuesday, examinations of Exit Polling, reviews of fraud reports coming in to VR’s $500k Fraud Tip Hotline and more, I believe the posited notion from my ComputerWorld article yesterday — that Dems “might have taken 40 seats in the House instead of just 30 had they bothered to fight for an accountable, secure, transparent electoral system and instructed their candidates to concede nothing until every vote was counted, verified and audited for accuracy” — will begin to emerge as a more and more likely case.
Such as it is for the moment, however, I think it’s fair to suggest that the only reason things went as well as they did is because of the tireless Election Integrity advocates on the ground across the country this time. The bad guys knew that this time they were being watched, and it would be much harder to get away with anything. I’ll associate myself with Ohio’s democracy champions, Fitrakis and Wasserman who wrote that last Tuesday was a “monumental victory for the Election Protection movement.”
I couldn’t concur more whole-heartedly…Even with miles to go before we sleep…
“Even with miles to go before we sleep…”
Brad, your tireless energy never ceases to amaze me…..hopefully, sometime in the future you and all the other patriots fighting for honest elections will be recognized for your dedication. Without you all, and your combined and continuing exposure to the horrors of those horrendous voting machines, your country would still be in the grip of the corrupt Bush administration.
Paper ballots and pencils are the only way to go..!!
Anybody who thinks this election was totally cool will let you dock their bonus check, their paycheck or their lottery check by 5 or 10% on the grounds that they’ve been unemployed for a long time, there’s been a serious drought, and this newfound money coming in by check and relative windfall is to be CELEBRATED!!!! No more of this negativity, man! (this is the psychological dynamic that ignores the thumb on the scale and assumes the thumb always completely throws the scale off which is not true…)
Since George Bush stole the election in 2000, a lot of people have suffered and died. That funny story of the Diebold machine gone berserk and wreaking havoc is actually a pretty good allegory.
Don’t forget to read Cindy Sheehan’s account of the unsuccessfully stolen election of 2006.
Thank you Cindy, for being so brave! You speak for all Americans, whether they know it or not.
Bush Administration, Dying at the Border
This is from “Skeptical Economistâ€. This is the one of the best articles I have ever read on economics and illegal immigration.
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Agree 100% ! Here in Ohio we didn’t get one judge or justice, odd. The two disliked people running, Mean Jean and “I’m Foley’s friend” Pryce, as of yesterday weren’t confirmed, but their numbers give them a win. Media coverage, slight as it was, (some activist coverage) I think forced them to back off some. But hey they have the power, no way would they let it go to waste completely.