How the GOP Bought, Rigged, Stole and Lynched the 2014 Election

[Judi Lynn]

November 12, 2014
Democracy on the Skids

How the GOP Bought, Rigged, Stole and Lynched the 2014 Election

by BOB FITRAKIS & HARVEY WASSERMAN


Since the Bush-Cheney-Rove theft of the 2000 election in Florida, the right of millions of American citizens to vote and have that vote counted has been under constant assault.

In 2014, that systematic disenfranchisement may well have delivered the US Senate to the Republican Party. If nothing significant is done about it by 2016, we can expect the GOP to take the White House and much more.

The primary victims of this GOP-led purge have been young, elderly, poor and citizens of color who tend to vote Democratic. The denial of their votes has changed the face of our government, and is deepening corporate control of our lives and planet.

There’s no doubt the Democrats have alienated their core constituency and given millions of their former supporters little reason to vote. Perpetual war, blank checks for mega-banks, stiffing the working poor while giving away the planet to the rich—-these are all part of the malaise. Our political landscape is currently defined by corporate personhood and its gutting of the Democratic Party.

Part of that is the destruction of our electoral rights, and the refusal of the Democrats to even face the issue, let alone do something about it. Our voting system is, to put it mildly, bought and rigged, further feeding the deadening sense of public futility and frustration.

More:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/11/12/how-the-gop-bought-rigged-stole-and-lynched-the-2014-election/

[Hoppy]

1. What do you think is more responsible for the losses?

G.O.P. voter fraud, caging and so forth? Or is it that the Dem candidates went wobbly. They did not call out Repub. bullshit. They ignored calling attention to Obama's successes... and so forth.