Originally Posted By SuperDry I see early signs that the noise machine is already gearing up for an election loss, and that "voter fraud" will be the reason given. Expect a lot more of what the noise machine delivers best over the next few days: noise. There will be lots of stories about alleged voter fraud, but few if any that actually rise to the level of something proven, let alone anything that could plausibly explain how the election turned out. Yet, you'll hear from the parrots a lot about "election fraud" along with innuendo that it caused the election to turn out as it did. This is of course assuming that Romney does not win, which is yet to be seen. We'll know for sure (hopefully) one way or the other in about a day and a half.
Originally Posted By Tikiduck Nothing I hear from these people will come as much of a surprise after the crud they have been spewing for the last six months. I imagine if Obama wins, there will be the obligatory run on guns and ammo, so we probably should not gloat too much in public!
Originally Posted By DyGDisney Apparently they are already preparing with excess gun and ammo purchases.
Originally Posted By fkurucz >>I imagine if Obama wins, there will be the obligatory run on guns and ammo, so we probably should not gloat too much in public!<< The gun and ammo makers should send him a thank you card. I can't imagine that business has ever been better for them.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 The NRA actually argued that the very fact that Obama did absolutely nothing about guns in his first term was proof that he was planning to take them away in his second. I know, it makes no sense. But we're talking the NRA.
Originally Posted By EdisYoda Interesting, in that all of the "voter fraud" I have heard of so far are all Registered Repbulicans!
Originally Posted By ecdc Right. Voter suppression seems to be taking place right now in Ohio and Florida, with a lot of people complaining they can't vote. Of course, it's just a crazy coincidence that both are swing states with Republican governors and secretaries of state that are already guilty of voter suppression tactics in the name of preventing voter fraud.
Originally Posted By Dabob2 Back to the OT, I think this is another reason Nate Silver makes the right wing crazy. It's a lot harder to scream "voter fraud!!" because "we were winning!!...everybody knows we had the momentum and we're going to win!" when the best-known number cruncher in politics is saying "actually, you were trailing going into election day, any momentum Romney had was over by mid-October, and if anything it was Obama who was ticking up a bit in the final week or so. Therefore the result is just about what we should have expected." Not that they won't scream "voter fraud" anyway, but they'd love it if their narrative didn't have such a prominent debunker.
Originally Posted By mawnck What we saw yesterday was voter fraud on an unprecedented and appalling scale. We will be using every legal avenue at our disposal to stop this shocking travesty from being forced onto the American people at this critical time in our history. Sincerely, the GOP, Wednesday Morning PS - Here's a hidden camera video of James O'Keefe, disguised as a dead Mexican, being allowed to vote 47 times in Chicago, with giant 9-foot-tall one-eyed black gang members standing on either side of the entrance to the polls intimidating voters, and the Diebold voting machine changing his vote to Obama every time. No, it's not edited. That's the for-real audio too. Honest.
