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Saturday, October 18, 2008

They're going to steal it AGAIN
Posted by Jill | 8:44 AM
They've all but flat-out admitted it.

They're going to steal the election again.

They're going to do it through disenfranchisement, through rigged voting machines, through plants at Fox News calling states before the votes are in.

What else do you think the "narrow victory scenario" means? It means winning by just a hair, just enough to take the White House, leaving stunned Democrats once again wondering how it all went wrong.

Here's how they're doing it:

1) They're duping voters into changing their registrations to Republican by telling them they're not allowed to sign a petition against child molesters unless they are registered Republicans. (Where's the Justice Department on this one, eh?)

2) They're inciting the same thugs that have been screaming at McCain/Palin rallies advocating the murder of Barack Obama to vandalize ACORN offices and threaten the lives of activists trying to register voters.

3) They're embarking on a nationwide quest to systematically disenfranchise Democrats -- and ONLY Democrats.

4) They're going to rely on people's trust in the voting apparatus when, four years after Wally O'Dell of Diebold said he would do whatever is necessary to deliver Ohio's electoral voters to George W. Bush, people in 34 states, including New Jersey, are going to vote on machines that are easily rigged. Let's not say "hacked", because "hacked" conjures up images of bored smart teenagers. Let's call it what it is -- vote-rigging and often vote-switching.

5) The lapdogs of the corporate media are still talking in one way or another about the so-called "Bradley Effect", in which white voters lie to pollsters, thus overstating support for the black candidate. And just to cover all the bases, Faux Noise has decided that there is a REVERSE "Bradley Effect" to try to rile up the Republican base.

"The Bradley effect." "The narrow victory scenario." It's all falling into place.
Oh, and by the way? They also have the apparatus in place to clamp down on anyone who dares to protest the results.

Yes, the Supreme Court put a roadblock in the path of Republicans to disenfranchise hundreds of thousands of new voters in Ohio yesterday. But that's just a flesh wound. There are 49 other states to play with.

So there is not going to be a single minute to exhale. Not now, not on November 5 if their efforts fail, and not for the next eight fucking years. Because every damn last one of us has to get out there on November 4 and vote. No excuses. No "he doesn't need my vote." No "My state is blue anyway and I really need to cut up vegetables for stir-fry." No "I've been sitting in a 10-mile backup on the Parkway because there's an accident on the OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD and everyone wants a show." I don't care if you've been mauled by a pack of wild dogs. Barack Obama is going to need every vote he can get. He needs every vote because he has to have enough votes that not even the Republicans can steal this election. He needs every vote because Bush Republicanism must be shown, even to Chris Matthews, to be completely discredited. He needs every vote because part of this attempt to steal the election is the contingency plan to try to delegitimize a President Obama. Because if you think for one minute that they won't try to turn Tony Rezko into Jim McDougal, that they won't go on wild goosechases finding phony birth certificates to try to "prove" that Obama is "not American" and is therefore not eligible for the presidency, that they won't try to take a shot at him if they have to, guess again.

If ever a presidential candidate needed us to have his back, it's this one. He is up against the foul forces of racism, of fear, of loathing, of white privilege, of mean-spirited little people who wish it was still 1954. We can be satisfied with nothing less than a landslide.

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Blogger Unknown said...
With all the *real* examples of attempted voter fraud in the news in recent weeks you've been completely silent, because it was to the benefit of your side. Your first post on the matter is about Republicans stealing the election? That's pretty funny.

Talking about the Bradley Effect? "EVIDENCE THAT THE GOP IS TRYING TO STEAL THE ELECTION!" Talking about the Reverse Bradley Effect? "Uh... FURTHER EVIDENCE THAT THE GOP IS TRYING TO STEAL THE ELECTION!!"

I swear, do you ever go back and re-read your stuff to see how ridiculous it sounds?
10/18/08, 9:31 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Here in Central Florida it used to
be McCain/Palin signs on all the whitie front lawns and few if any
Obama/Biden signs. Since the end
of the second debate there are now
way more Obama signs on lawns right
next door and across the street in
those same middle class very white
neighborhoods. After the third
debate the number of SUV's and Buicks with Obama stickers on them
is very noticeable. I think many people that may have been orginally
supportive of McCain have now switched to the more sensible Obama
Biden ticket.
Your post brings to mind a news story after the 2000 election on Forida's East Coast. An elderly man was asking a tv reporter what he should do with this trunkload of
Gore ballots a couple days past the election! He was told to get rid of them from his voting place
but had forgotten where they said to put them.
I believe you are right that every
trick in the book will be used to
keep the " " from getting in office. Makes me ashamed of the country of assholes I live in.
10/18/08, 10:49 AM  
Blogger Cirze said...
You go Jill!

And not only have you written one of the best exposes of how the Rethugs are planning to steal "it" again, but you've already called out the troll-spooks!

Good on you!

I'm going to link to your essay and have you on my blogroll already. Your blog is a breath of fresh air in an increasingly airless U.S. political fight zone.

Oh, and they are defacing Obama's signs everyday in NC: the fight for our lives in ON!

Suzan
10/18/08, 1:01 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
1. They can steal one close state, maybe two, provided states are close enough to manipulate totals into different outcomes. But they'd still have to reach 270 electoral votes.

2. Barack's campaign is smarter about this stuff. Gore was blindsided. Kerry didn't have a middle game much less an endgame for the match. W. Bush ran slick top to bottom campaigns, everybody was on board. Not this year.
10/18/08, 4:42 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...
Barry, perhaps you have better proof than what the Republicans have provided on alleged Democratic voter fraud?
10/18/08, 6:55 PM  
Blogger Melina said...
I agree with Rix...It is imperative that we keep on top of this and that every precinct have a volunteer observer etc... but its gonna be hard to steal the election in this sorta landslide.
A group of disgruntled racist pigs can go around defacing signs all they want, but the truth is that Obama is taking NC...right? Let the KKK stage their rallies till the cows come home, it looks like Obama is gonna win across the board. I dont see a squeaker here, but if there is, and there is a problem, I have to believe that the third times a charm as far as preparation goes. Too much of the machine flaws are on the record now...too much of the disenfranchisement.

And as for Trolls...Barry, do you ever go back and reread your stuff?
HOnestly, the "real" examples are not worth the time debunking...they found nothing there...and bringing them up only gives creedence to all that trolls like you have left anymore...which is it troll around grasping at straws in the face of how little power you have in this situation. We dont have to respond to your lies...in the face of the enormity of the crap that you and yours have been spewing, its only on us to report our own stories and evidence. If you wanna go be an editor, be one elsewhere...we've spent enough time on your lies.

when the fairness doctrine is firmly back in place maybe we'll have a little more time to debunk your crap. In the meantime, you can go post on the wingnut blogs...boo hoo...we want attention!

I firmly believe that Barry is gonna vote for Obama anyway...hes not that much of an idiot to vote against his own best interest.

Its looking good for Obama and that brings out the worst in trolls and racists...

great post Jill...keep em coming!
10/18/08, 11:13 PM  
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