FACT CHECK: Huckleberry Lied About Biden's Vote Totals, BigTime!

[jefferson_dem]

FACT CHECK: Biden, almost 80,000 votes
Posted: Wednesday, September 03, 2008 9:51 PM by Domenico Montanaro
Filed Under: 2008, Biden, Huckabee, Republican convention

From NBC's Domenico Montanaro
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Mike Huckabee made the claim that Palin got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States.

For the record, Joe Biden got 79,754 total votes in the Democratic primaries.

As of the 2000 census, the population of Wasilla was 5,469. It has been reported at currently more than 9,000.

That would mean, conservatively, the entire town of Wasilla would have had to have had a 100% turnout for nine years at 9,000 to top Biden's primary numbers.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/03/1338894.aspx

[NYC_SKP]

1. Sadly, no one will notice, no one will care beyond a few...

Though it helps that it's out there.

There's so much bullshit coming out of every media outlet, the only way we're going to win is to vote, GOTV, phone bank, and contribute.

This is probably our last chance before the media is 100% corporate, including the internet.

If there's a McCain administrations, DU membership will require short-wave radios and hand generators.

:patriot:

[Beaverhausen]

2. how do you know when a republican is lying?

you know the answer.

[tekisui]

3. I am not surprised, I knew it was a lie, just like everything else

that has been spewed tonight.

[likesmountains 52]

4. Thanks, I wondered about that...

[valerief]

5. Kick

[ben_meyers]

6. Biden has never run for president, so he hasn't received

any votes. He has only run for the nomination.