Ten ways the McCain/Palin GOP is now stealing the Ohio vote

[babsbunny]

http://www.freepress.org/departments/display/19/2008/3201

by Bob Fitrakis & Harvey Wasserman
September 9, 2008

The McCain/Palin GOP is already in the process of stealing the Ohio vote, as was done in 2004. Among those at the center of the GOP strategy is Bush Family computer operative Michael Connell, who programmed the key vote counting mechanisms that were used to give George W. Bush his second term.

Except for John Kennedy in 1960, no candidate since 1856 (James Buchanan) has won the White House without carrying the Buckeye State. No Republican has ever done it.

On October 27, 2004, we published "Twelve Ways Bush is Now Stealing the Ohio Vote" at www.FreePress.org. Despite four years of denial by the Democratic Party and the corporate media, all methods mentioned in that article (plus many more) were used in the theft that gave George W. Bush his second term.

Much has now changed in Ohio, including the transition from a Republican Governor (Robert Taft) and Secretary of State (J. Kenneth Blackwell) to Democrats Ted Strickland and Jennifer Brunner. Brunner has made strong public commitments to conducting a fair registration process, an orderly election and a reliable vote count this fall. She is being pushed by the King-Lincoln-Bronzeville federal civil rights lawsuit, filed originally against Blackwell.

[dtotire]

1. Rasmussen has McCain 51-44

Bad news. I hope its just a bounce.
Chuck Todd, on MSNBC, says it will come to 4 states--Colorado, Ohio, Virginia, and New Hampshire. I don't think Palin helps in Colorado or New Hampshire, and probaly hurts. The other two are doubtful.

[carguy67]

2. bounce

How is Mc's so much bigger than Obama's though? Obama had all of the hype and momentum leading up to his history making speech.

[Marsala]

3. He left out Florida

Somehow, it seems to be in play again.

[pnorman]

4. Check out this interview with Mark Crispin Miller, on Media Matters:

http://will.illinois.edu/mediamatters/

Later, check out: http://www.velvetrevolution.us/prosecute_rove/, and then Google: "Spoonamore".

Those slimy corksuckers ARE desperate! Not only that 8 year-long ORGY of unsupervised graft & theft may be coming to an end, but many of them may end up in PRISON!
pnorman

[mopinko]

5. please do not use prison rape as a joke.

it is not funny. nor does the additional reminder that it will be an anal rape make it any more funny. it makes it less funny.
thanks

[Alpharetta]

6. I agree w/ your sentiment. It's a joke for torture fans

Like Abu Ghraib, it makes all Americans look as disgusting as the warmongers.

[pnorman]

7. My apologies!

Not so much to whomever in the gay community I may have unthinkingly offended. Rather it is for my trivialization, of what is a psyche-destroying "by-product" of an inhuman penal system.

Fortunately, it was still in the window of editing!

pnorman

[mopinko]

8. thank you. and thank du.

i used to make those jokes without really thinking about it because they are just so pervasive. so, thank the folks at du for straightening me out.

[The Stranger]

9. I really fail to understand how Ohio can be a red state.

What the fuck is going on in Ohio?

[AnnaLouise]

10. Ohio Republican tricks

in 2004
1
Toledo Democrat precincts shut down.. ' no number 2 pencils'
2 Kenyon college students had to wait, some of them til 4 am
They voted AFTER Hawaii polls closed.
3. Warren Democratic observers locked out
4. People in North Hill in Akron were left standing in the rain
for a half hour though staff was inside
5. Around the state Blackwell caused undermanning and undermachining
in Democratic precincts
6. KERRY LEFT OFF THE CINCINNATI ABSENTEE BALLOT
7. It was at the Fairlawn Hilton in Fairlawn Ohio that Cheney was told
by O'Dell of Diebold that Diebold woulud do whatever it could to
give Bush a victory

etc.

See RFK's What Happened in Ohio in rollingstone.com