John McCain’s “Americans Are Racists Like Me” Strategy to Steal the Election

[McCamy Taylor]

I. America, Get Ready to be Called “Racist” By The John McCain Campaign In Order to Explain Exit Poll-Tabulated Vote Discrepancies

I was reading a link someone posted to the FreeRepublic and the whole John McCain “victory” strategy became crystal clear. It is all about stealing the election, of course.

To: Maelstorm
Yeah. If McCain pulls within the margin of error after all 3 debates, he will win the election.


12 posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:09:39 PM by se_ohio_young_conservative (McCain/Palin 08...Dont stop believin...)

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2091842/posts#comment

Why does “SE Ohio Young Conservative” believe that McCain will win the election as long as he can keep the polls “within the margin of error”? Republican election fraud.

To: Recovering_Democrat
Relax...the polls have ALWAYS favored Democrats....Obama needs at least 55% going into the election. Check the state by state as well....if I was McCain I would be on Virginia, Florida, Ohio, and PA.


20 posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:13:34 PM by Blue Turtle (I)

No, polls do not favor Democrats. Those who count the ballots----the companies who design electronic voting systems, county election boards which lock their doors on election nights, partisan secretaries of state who disenfranchise voters likely to be Democrats by stripping them from voting rolls and providing them with less voting machines, state legislatures which pass “poll tax” laws and the Bush Department of Justice which has failed to enforce the Voting Rights Act in defense of minority voters a single time in the last eight years ---- favor Republicans. Which is why pre-election polls and exit polls have not matched final vote tallies in this country in years.

To: tatown
Well according to the same lamestream then he still loses because racial prejudice from those Democrats he loses 6-10 percent.... can’t win if they tell the pollster one thing and vote the opposite..... Thats the Rats for ya... Then they will cling to the polls and claim vote fraud.... Pathetic.


46 posted on Saturday, September 27, 2008 12:26:07 PM by tomnbeverly (America is dying your choice is to stand and fight or cut and run.)

Team McCain definitely has election fraud in the works, because they are already planning their excuse (for a 6-10% discrepancy no less!). No, not My dog ate my homework Not even Big Dog ate the economy .That is the one they are using to try to excuse George W. Bush who caused the current mortgage-banking crisis by retooling an old Civil War law so that he could prevent the states from prosecuting predatory lenders who sold unsuspecting home buyers bad loans and investors crap investments, all in the name of “the free market”, see Eliot Spitzer’s must read editorial in the Valentine’s issue of the Washington Post. He went up against the Bush-Cheney machine and sacrificed his career to tell the truth, so we should all read it: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/13/AR2008021302783.html)

The excuse that John McCain plans to whip out of his pants when the vote tallies in key battleground states with Republican secretaries of state and attorney generals and electronic voting systems and tabulation systems designed by Republican donors and a high number of Democrats forced to cast provisional ballots do not match exit polls and pre-election polling goes something like this:

“Remember the Bradley effect? Remember New Hampshire? A lot of voters said they would vote for Barack Obama, but in the voting booth, they got cold feet, and they decided to vote for a white guy instead.”

The funny thing about this so called “Bradley effect”? It will be most pronounced in areas with electronic voting and in places where county election boards lock their doors before they do the tabulation and in states where there are lots of so called “spoiled” ballots—like Florida. In places with a certifiable paper trail, in places with hand counted paper ballots, in states where all the elected officials are Democratic, in states which are firmly “blue”, the exit polls and the pre-election polls are going to match the final tallies just fine.

Remember when Warren Mitofsky sold his own legacy as a pollster to create the totally insane “Reluctant responder” theory for the Bush administration? Rove had to do something. A quarter of Americans believed that the election had been stolen, despite the best efforts of the various TV news networks to suppress their exit polls and cover up Grand Theft Election Ohio 2004. So, Mitofsky told Americans that the polls (which had been leaked to the public) were off, because Republicans were more secretive and would not talk to pollsters. This turned out to be bullshit, as I demonstrated in one of my first cartoons at my website:



Bush and Rove did not expect to have any problems with exit polls, because there was not supposed to be a smoking gun exit poll in Ohio 2004. On election day, their man in Ohio, Kenneth Blackwell issued a sudden decree, banning all exit pollsters from the immediate vicinity of polling places. If Blackwell’s order had been allowed to take effect, exit polls would have been useless in Ohio that day, since everyone knows that exit polls rapidly decrease in accuracy the farther the pollsters are from the exits to the polling place. Unfortunately for Bush and Rove, the TV news networks got an emergency court order, and they were allowed to conduct routine exit polls. I point out this order as highly suggestive that election fraud was planned all along, and that Blackwell was in on the fix.

For those who did not pay a lot of attention in 2004 or who need a refresher course, here is a nice summary from After Downing Street which describes how pre-election polls and exit polls which favored Kerry turned into tabulated votes that favored Bush:

http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/36175

Since everyone knows about the suspicious exit poll/ tabulated vote discrepancies of 2004, Team McCain can not try to suppress the exit polls this time. People will be watching for those polls, to make sure the election is fair. So, they will try to argue that the polls are wrong. They will insist that Democratic voters are racists, who lie before and after voting. Since Karl Rove always uses election fraud, it is possible he may have planned to use this strategy all along. I.e. exploit Democratic Senator Barack Obama's mixed racial background so that he could steal votes beyond the usual margin of error and blame it on the mythological Bradley effect. In a year that everyone has known for some time was the Democrats to win, this may have seemed his best option to pad the Republican candidate's vote. When MSNBC, the Guardian and the Tribune insisted that we had witnessed the Bradley effect in New Hampshire, they may have been playing into the hands of Rove, priming America for a three ring media circus the next fall.

If I am right, this is why we see the McCain campaign resorting to increasingly nasty racially charged attack ads, like “The One” and selling products like “Obama Waffles”. They are not actually trying to scare voters. Hard core bigots do not need to see an ad to be remained of the stereotypes. and the people who are not racists are either going to be oblivious to the offensive content of these spots or they will be offended. These commercials are not designed to have an affect on viewers. They are designed to be noticed by the press and political pundits.

In the month of October, do not be surprised if “Harold, Call me” quality spots appear on the airwaves. Even if the only effect is to disgust voters, the Republicans can later claim that they had the effect of focusing Democratic and Independent voters’ attention on Obama’s race. As if we are blind. This was the same strategy which the Republicans employed when they used electronic vote fraud to unseat Vietnam War hero Sen. Max Cleland in Georgia in 2002. It is now clear that Diebold used that state for a test run of its election fraud capabilities. A popular incumbent Democratic governor with a double digit lead in the polls was unseated by his Republican rival---an impossibility. And we were supposed to believe that Max Cleland was voted out of office because the Republicans superimposed his picture over that of Arabs. Not even Georgians are that stupid. The GOP attack ads were designed to give plausible deniability. “We did not hack the vote. It isn’t our fault if the voters were dumb enough to fall for our ugly, hateful, dirty tricks attack ads. All is fair in love, war and politics."

This will be the McCain campaign’s response to the anomalous election results in the states below. They will crow about how their ugly, racist ad campaigns “worked”. They will blame the Democrats for being "dumb" enough to run a Black candidate. They will malign the honesty and fairness of American voters, when in fact, it will have been voter suppression, purges, electronic vote fraud, faulty tabulation and other scams that will be responsible for exit poll-tabulated discrepancies.


With that in mind, here are my predictions for states where we will see McCain point his gnarly old finger and declare white voters racist .

II. Michigan Will Be Declared Another Home of the KKK By the Republican Party

Michigan is an important battleground state with its 17 electoral votes. With its tanking economy and with McCain’s history in the state (he said the jobs were never coming back) it should be Obama’s for the taking. However, Obama did not campaign in the state during the primaries. Much more important for John McCain, the Secretary of State is a Republican. That means guaranteed Democratic voter suppression (at the very least).

http://www.aclu.org/votingrights/gen/36836prs20080918.html

DETROIT – Advancement Project, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Michigan and the law firm of Pepper Hamilton LLP filed a federal lawsuit late yesterday challenging two statewide voter purge programs that could potentially disfranchise hundreds of thousands of Michigan voters in advance of the November 2008 presidential election. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court in Detroit against Michigan Secretary of State Terri Lynn Land, Michigan Bureau of Elections Director Christopher M. Thomas, and Ypsilanti Clerk Frances McMullen.

"We have repeatedly advised Secretary Land's office that these voter purge programs are unlawful, yet they have refused to bring their practices into compliance," said Bradley Heard, senior attorney with Advancement Project. "Thus, we felt that filing this action was the only way we could ensure that the voting rights of thousands of Michigan residents would not be infringed upon during this important and historic presidential election, and beyond."

Michigan’s attorney general, Mike Cox is also a Republican, so expect more nasty doings in that state. If you live in Michigan, even if you are Black, you will probably be told that you switched your vote to McCain, because you do not trust a Black man in the White House.

III. Wisconsin, Bet You Didn’t Know You Were an Enclave of NeoNazis?

Yes, Wisconsin is another state where we are likely to see a mismatch of pre-election polls and election day vote tabulation. How do I know? Because John McCain campaign co-chair in the state also happens to be the state’s attorney general and he is already trying to suppress the vote . (Where the hell is the Department of Justice’s Voting Rights Division in all of this?).

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/09/wi_attorney_general.php

As the presidential election nears, and Wisconsin proves itself to once again be a battleground state, J.B. Van Hollen, the state attorney general and co-chair of the Wisconsin McCain campaign, is raising the specter of voting fraud.

Van Hollen filed suit earlier this month, against the state Government Accountability Board (GAB) which oversees elections in Wisconsin, demanding that they verify all of the voter registrations made since January 2006 against a new state database created under the federal Help America Vote Act (HAVA) -- a Herculean task that the board had decided to forgo with just six weeks to go until the election.
The GAB claims to be in full compliance with HAVA, stating that retro-active voter registration checks through the database are not mandated by federal law.

New voters are more likely to be Obama voters, of course.

The result, state Democrats say, would be widespread disenfranchisement and suppressed voter turnout. They claim Van Hollen's demands for database checking are motivated by his role in the McCain campaign, an allegation Van Hollen has denied.
"There was no discussion with anybody involved in leadership with the Republican Party (or the McCain campaign) about this lawsuit before it was brought," Van Hollen said last Thursday.
But yesterday, the Wisconsin Republican Party chairman came forward to say he had multiple conversations with Van Hollen's deputy attorney general, Ray Taffora, specifically discussing the handling of the lawsuit, the Wisconsin State Journal reported. The Friday before, another Department of Justice attorney in the lawsuit admitted meeting with Republican Party representatives in the week before the suit was filed.

So, folks in Wisconsin, if you do not want Katie Couric and Brian Williams getting all over your TV screen telling the world that you are a bunch of big, fat lying racists, maybe you had better do something now about your state officials. Because we have seen this all before in Ohio.

IV. Watch Out in Virginia, Your States Used to Be Part of the Confederacy

If I had to place a bet, I would say that the GOP election fraud will occur mostly at the precinct level in Virginia. For one thing, the farther south you go, the more you can rely upon rank and file election workers to do the Republican Party’s dirty work for it, since southerners have had over a hundred years’ practice in suppressing the vote and using funny math to count what votes are cast. Also, the Republican attorney general in Virginia, Robert F. McDonnell, who endorsed McCain last winter, plans to run for governor next year, and he will not make it if he becomes this year’s Ken Blackwell.

However, that did not stop him from becoming associated with a nasty Republican voter registration suppression action this summer. In a nutshell, the GOP warned that there was fraudulent voter registration going on, they demanded a criminal investigation by McDonnell, and they warned people not to let anyone register them to vote (!!!!). In a situation like this, the proper response for the state’s attorney general is to tell people “Please, go register to vote!” But if he is a Republican…..

http://www.openleft.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=7224

http://www.raisingkaine.com/showDiary.do?diaryId=15166

The way I see it, McDonnell won’t initiate anything, but he will not prosecute anything either, so Republicans will feel free to do pretty much anything---toss Democratic ballots in the trash, reprogram electronic voting machines, set up police roadblocks, ask for ID from minorities only. And if the press calls Virginians racists, no one in the United States will doubt it.

V. Bet You Did Not Know Colorado Was Part of the Confederacy, Too

Watch out for Mike Coffman, Republican Secretary of State. He is in charge of state elections, he is running for Congress, and unlike some of the other ambitious Republicans I have written about up until now, he is not cautious.

Here are some of the complaints about him in the past.

http://blog.peakdems.org/2008/02/mike-coffmans-questonable-ethics-being.html

Ethics Watch's complaint details how Secretary Coffman violated his duties under state law and state personnel rules twice in 2007. First, Secretary Coffman allowed at least one employee in his office to operate a partisan side business without proper authorization and disclosure - a business that was patently incompatible with the official duties of that employee. Secondly, Secretary Coffman failed to disclose a conflict of interest between he and one of the voting system vendors seeking certification from the secretary of state's office - the only vendor that Secretary Coffman agreed to certify.

"How can Coloradoans trust Secretary Coffman to manage a fair and accurate election this fall when he has demonstrated a disturbing pattern of disregard for the law?" questioned Chantell Taylor, director of Colorado Ethics Watch.

I have to agree. If he cut a secret deal to select a certain voting system vendor, when he knew that he would be running for office this fall, how do we know that he did not ask for a “cheat”--- a way to rig elections in his state?

The controversy continues. It turns out that the vendor in question is Diebold under a new name. And recently, Coffman’s State Election Director had to resign because of conflicts of interest.

http://www.progressnowaction.org/page/community/post/al/CZGb

So I rate the chances of an exit poll—vote tabulation mismatch in Colorado as through the roof .

VI. Pennsylvanians Are Fine Folks, But To Preserve Their Reputations They Might Want to Consider Paper Ballots This Election

http://www.votepa.us/newsarchive/2008/PAStateofDenial-PT1-3-08.html

No particular individual in Pennsylvania state office worries me. However, it is a big state with lots of financial obligations, and it will take a while to undo the damage that convicted felon and Diebold co-conspirator Bob Ney did with his HAVA Act. You know, Hack America’s Vote. The state is up to its neck in hackable electronic, paperless voting machines. In a blue through and through state it would not matter. However, in a purple state, the Republican controlled precincts can reset their machines to change the Democratic votes to Republican votes---the way that they did in Ohio in 2004. With no pesky paper trail, they know that they can not get caught. They will blame the exit poll-vote tabulation discrepancy on the so called Bradley effect and some “expert” will claim that the Bradley effect is more pronounced in Republican enclaves than in Democratic strongholds, to explain why the discrepancy occurs in some areas but not others.

Pennsylvania will save its reputation a world of hurt by just printing up some nice ballots and letting people fill then out and hiring some college kids to tabulate them. Or maybe you can hire some out of work bank executives.

I could write more about the other battle ground states, because there are so many of them this year. However, I think that with these, I have covered most of the Republican election theft strategies. The key to victory is have a paper record that can be counted. McCain will not dare steal votes anyplace where a recount will reveal fraud. McCain does not care how many Democrats turn out---within reason--- since he is ready to argue that X percentage lied to exit pollsters because they are afraid to see a Black man president. As long as he can keep his pre-election polls in the ballpark for a victory---as long as his numbers are still around 40%---this plan can work. And as long as he keeps pulling crazy stunts that keep people from thinking about issues and keep them focused on the demolition derby/sitcom that is McCain/Palin, he should be able to maintain a 39-40%.

However, this scam will fall apart if similar demographics of Democrats and Independents do not show a similar pattern of “lying” to exit pollsters from precinct to precinct. For instance, a non compliant news media could have ripped the “Reluctant responder” theory to shreds by noting, as I did in my cartoon, that people’s behavior changed based upon what type of ballot they used----an obvious sign that the accuracy of vote tabulation was what varied from precinct to precinct, not Republicans' responses to exit pollsters. So, if even some precincts in each state are using ballots that leave a paper trail, this will force the McCain campaign and their operatives to keep their fraud to a low level----for if they get greedy, the theft will become obvious.

Therefore, if you are able to get your precinct to switch to paper ballots, do so. You will serve as a control for the precinct next door, which may be run by a bunch of Republican cheaters who plan to switch one out of three Obama votes to a McCain vote and then cite the Bradley effect to explain the screwy exit polls.

And for God’s sake, make sure that no one, not local officials, not state officials, not the feds, is able to restrict exit pollsters. And that includes no making them stand far away from the exits of the polling places, since that decreases the reliability of the polls, which is the same as no exit polls at all.

VII. One Last Thing You Can Do: Battle Conservative Attempts to Make "The Bradley Effect" A Candidate in This Year's Presidential Contest

If you begin to hear Republicans and Freepers talking a lot about how the Bradley effect will play a big part in this election, be sure to correct them. Wikipedia is a good place to start.

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

It describes how the effect (which may or may not have existed fifteen years ago in American politics) appears to have vanished in the last few years. Contests to cite---Harold Ford Jr.s, Bobby Jindal's. Also be sure to tell people that in New Hampshire there was no Bradley effect. Obama's poll numbers before and after did not change. It was Hillary who got a surge of new voters from New Hampshire's feminist community.

http://www.nysun.com/opinion/bradley-effect-rip/69664/

Here is another very useful, fact filled article from August about how the primaries disproved the Bradley Effect for Obama, who over performed in most areas of the country. The author notes that conservatives are trying to keep the notion of the Bradley effect alive, even though there is no evidence to support it.

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2008/08/persistent-myth-of-bradley-effect.html


And don't look now, but as I was doing a search for conservatives hawking this phrase to the public ( I knew I would find some, and no, I did not foresee it in a crystal ball), I stumbled upon a Pulitzer Prize winner who has been recruited by the NeoCon wing of the New York Times to re-inject the phrase "The Bradley Effect" into this fall's presidential election. William Safire. "The Bradley Effect." Right on cue. Cross my heart and hope to die I did not know he wrote this piece until I had already finished my OP and was proofreading it. That is why this is tacked on at the end. I just knew that some conservative somewhere was selling this idea to the public. In fiction writing, we call it foreshadowing . It is how you make a pack of lies plausible.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/28/magazine/28wwln-safire-t.html?ref=magazine

Thus (great word, thus — shuts off argument) we have Democrats using the Bradley effect phrase to signal “if we lose this one, it would mean that America is still afflicted with residual racism, and nobody wants that,” and Republicans using it to say “if the polls show us within five points of Obama on election eve, don’t be misled and discouraged, run to vote, because we’re really winning.”

The Times editor of news surveys and election analysis, Janet Elder, brought the phrase up to date in an article in May headlined “Will There Be an ‘Obama Effect’?” She noted one theory holding “that white poll respondents are reluctant to tell African-American telephone interviewers that they are not going to vote for the black candidate.” Her answer to the question in her headline is one all objective observers can subscribe to: “It is hard to know.”

Hard to know? No, it is not hard to know. It is only hard for Safire to write what is now known, when he needs the answer to be something else. Thus the deliberate ambiguity. The real question should be "Will William Safire attempt to apply 'The Reality Effect' To 'The Bradley Effect'?" Answer. He just did. He has lead his readers to believe that there is honest debate about whether or not the Bradley Effect still exists in American elections, when in fact what you really find are people like tomnbeverley at the Free Republic posting about how they plan to use this as their ace in the hole this November to cover up GOP election theft on a massive scale never before witnessed in this country.

6-10% indeed.

Myth is speech stolen and restored. Only, speech which is restored is no longer quite that which was stolen: when it was brought back, it was not quite put exactly in its place. It is this brief act of larceny, this moment taken for a surreptitious faking, which gives mythical speech its benumbed look. Roland Barthes Mythologies

[OKNancy]

1. That's a lot of work, and I'm sure like all the

"they are going to steal the election" stuff you will get lots af recs..
but I just want to say that when it doesn't happen, will you guys
calm down with all the conspiracy stuff? Admit you were wrong?
I predict the answer will be: oh well, Obama was too far ahead to steal it.

[BzaDem]

3. You honestly don't believe the 2004 Ohio election was stolen?

Even after reading this article, by RFK Junior?

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/10432334/was_the_2004_election_stolen

[OKNancy]

8. I've been here long enough to know all about it. and no

I think there was hanky panky. But I am looking forward to a win in a few weeks.

Also I think this stuff amounts to voter supression.. and depression.

I won't be responding to any more posts in this thread, so if you all want to argue the point, that's fine. I know how it goes around here.

[Gman]

5. If it doesn't happen, something went wrong

you have to admit there has been entirely too much smoke in especially 2004 for there not to be a huge smoldering fire in there. The oxygen hasn't hit it because no body has dropped dime on the entire operation probably for fear of their life. Whoever exposes it is a walking dead man/woman.

[melody]

7. It's not conspiracy stuff

There is more than adequate evidence that Kerry won.

And yes, the margin will be the important factor.

[Nia Zuri]

2. Get it out there far and wide there is No Bradley effect,

Even if there were people can pretend they are open-minded and voting for a ticket with a woman on it. They can hide behind Palin if they are motivated by racism. Thus the "Palin effect" cancels out any potential "Bradley effect". I agree, it is being used to set up a smoke screen for election theft.

[McCamy Taylor]

6. Excellent point! With McCain's melanoma bomb, she would be prez.

[Gman]

4. Absolutely excellent post. K&R

Bookmark this post. Read it again election night if we're all standing around in disbelief. I'll give no more than even money that McCamy nails this one.

[Fire1]

9. I sadly, have to agree...............the fix is in, especially now that

the mcLame camp knows this election is going to be 'butt cheek' tight. The prediction is what, by a 1.2% margin? Oh, yeah, it's in.

[bertman]

10. We need a rider on the bailout bill (that is inevitably going to pass due to Dem complicity) that

mandates paper ballots and hand counts in every precinct in the country. Effective immediately every State's Sec'y of State orders paper ballots printed and distributed by a drop-dead date of Oct 26 to ensure all ballots are accurate.

CITIZENS will volunteer as poll watchers, election monitors, poll workers, vote counters and there will be a two-party or multi-party observer system set up so that it's all above board. Use law enforcement as needed where there are indications of potential chicanery.

This is an absolute necessity if we are going to have a free and fair election. The machines are built, operated, and owned and the code is written by super-conservative Republicans. This is not conspiracy theory. It is a fact.

Go to the new thread about Stephen Spoonamore's take on how the election is to be stolen. Not "could be stolen" but IS going to be stolen.

Send an email to your Senators and Reps now telling them to make this rider the law of the land as part of the bullshit bailout we're going to get from our Congress.

[notaboutus]

11. Not Gonna Happen

The Bradley effect is not even worth talking about anymore and AA think they stole that too. Plus there are only around 28% -30% of self identified registered republicans. Don't believe the hype they want to steal it and they will try but when they are all going to jail don't be surprised. There is too much technology to let them get away with it not to mention a team of attorneys that will be posted all around the country especially at places you mentioned. They can only steal so much without it being questioned so just turn out the vote volunteer to drive people to the polls. Be part of the solution. WE WILL WIN.

[McCamy Taylor]

12. Don't get me wrong. WE WILL WIN. But we must confront GOP fraud now, with open eyes

in order to do so. As you write, there will be teams of attorneys. There also need to be teams of volunteers (trained) around to country ready to step in to protect the rights of voters who are being intimidated at the polls. We need to be ready to publicize every effort to suppress the vote. Every precinct that does not have enough polling equipment needs a court order allowing it to keep its polls open longer.

The Obama Campaign is on top of this, but Democrats also need to be on top of this and do their part--- and we need to do what we can before the election to stop the GOP fraud because on election day it gets much harder.

Remember, there are people like John Stewart who still will not admit that Ohio 2004 was stolen. They will accept the judgment of a bunch of media whores who are paid to parrot the views of their corporate masters.

[Joe Chi Minh]

13. Thing is, the threat of penury and homelessness trump even the most visceral

and rabid racism.