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THE FIX IS IN! On MSNBC, Ken Blackwell "predicts" Romney will win Super Tuesday (Original Post) Amerigo Vespucci Mar 2012 OP
It seems like a pretty safe bet Motown_Johnny Mar 2012 #1
Or at least most of it BumRushDaShow Mar 2012 #2
The fix was in from the beginning. It's just that Romney was so lackluster maximusveritas Mar 2012 #3
2012 GOP Primaries=WWE Jamaal510 Mar 2012 #9
Blackwell - expert election fixing. liberal N proud Mar 2012 #4
blackwell? newspeak Mar 2012 #8
How come they aren't in prison? malaise Mar 2012 #5
Aw, I was kinda hoping Buttfroth would take it. Jester Messiah Mar 2012 #6
Talk about who you're associated with ... zbdent Mar 2012 #7
So what? I predict the same thing RZM Mar 2012 #10

BumRushDaShow

(129,109 posts)
2. Or at least most of it
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 01:37 PM
Mar 2012

because they can't make it look too "fixed". They may give the Salamander his beloved Georgia and maybe toss a Tennessee to Frothy, but that's about it.

maximusveritas

(2,915 posts)
3. The fix was in from the beginning. It's just that Romney was so lackluster
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 01:37 PM
Mar 2012

of a candidate, it took this long for them to wrap it up. Almost every aspect of the primary season has been rigged to favor him.

newspeak

(4,847 posts)
8. blackwell?
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 01:59 PM
Mar 2012

what the hell. Well, if you need election predictions, blackwell is your man. He did such a great job fixing, I mean, handling the election in ohio.

malaise

(269,057 posts)
5. How come they aren't in prison?
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 01:41 PM
Mar 2012
http://markcrispinmiller.com/2011/07/karl-roves-guy-mike-connell-signed-a-contract-with-oh-sos-ken-blackwell-to-hack-the-vote-in-04-new-court-filing-reveals-all/
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A new filing in the King Lincoln Bronzeville v. Blackwell case includes a copy of the Ohio Secretary of State election production system configuration that was in use in Ohio’s 2004 presidential election when there was a sudden and unexpected shift in votes for George W. Bush.

The filing also includes the revealing deposition of the late Michael Connell. Connell served as the IT guru for the Bush family and Karl Rove. Connell ran the private IT firm GovTech that created the controversial system that transferred Ohio’s vote count late on election night 2004 to a partisan Republican server site in Chattanooga, Tennessee owned by SmarTech. That is when the vote shift happened, not predicted by the exit polls, that led to Bush’s unexpected victory. Connell died a month and a half after giving this deposition in a suspicious small plane crash.

Additionally, the filing contains the contract signed between then-Ohio Secretary of State J. Kenneth Blackwell and Connell’s company, GovTech Solutions. Also included that contract a graphic architectural map of the Secretary of State’s election night server layout system.
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Of course Connell died in a strange plane crash
 

Jester Messiah

(4,711 posts)
6. Aw, I was kinda hoping Buttfroth would take it.
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 01:45 PM
Mar 2012

I'd love to see Obama smack him around in the general. Obama v. Romney will be much less entertaining.

zbdent

(35,392 posts)
7. Talk about who you're associated with ...
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 01:46 PM
Mar 2012

Just a glance at his site in Wikipedia ... tells a lot ...

lawsuits, election controversies, etc.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Blackwell

 

RZM

(8,556 posts)
10. So what? I predict the same thing
Sun Mar 4, 2012, 03:45 PM
Mar 2012

So does most of the pundit class. As lame as Romney is, Newt and Santorum have demonstrated they aren't up to the task of defeating him. This is evidence of Blackwell mouthing the CW like everybody else.

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