without any intellectual rigor at all.
Do you think that the fact, and it is a fact, that the Democratic party won by voting irregularities in Johnson's Senate campaign or Daley's 1960 election results meant that Democrats were conducting fraud across the country?
Voting fraud does occur. The allegation that it happened in Ohio is not evidence that it is part of a nationwide effort.
The Washington State Gubenatorial election was settled by a few dozen votes and while he could have caused problems the Republican Secretary of State Sam Reed played it down the middle and certified the Democrat even though a few hundred Democratic ballots were discovered after the vote. How does this square with our assertion that the Obama wave is too big to fix. How come the Republicans are not fixing all the small wave elections that they are losing? Why did they not use it to retain numerous Congressional seats they lost by small margins? Where is your evidence? Where is your logic?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_gubernatorial_election,_2004. The federal prosecutor in Washington State John McKay was ordered by the Bush administration to find electoral fraud in Washington State. When he did not he was fired
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_McKay_(attorney)(as were 7 others).
Now try and use your pea brain for a second. If the Bush administration had access to software that could flip a few votes:
1) Why didn't they use it in Washington State where a few votes could have been flipped and nobody would have notied?
2) Why didn't they use it in 2006 to retain power of Congress
3) Why would they bother with having federal prosecutors even bother with electoral fraud investigations.
4) Why would they bother firing federal prosecutors if they had another alternative.
Your pissy little reply reminds me of the pathetic sophmoric responses my 2nd year college students would bring when for the first time they struggled against their parents orthodoxy and adopted blindly the new ideology that they had embraced (right or left)
Your position is the one that is taken without a comprehensive examination of the facts in a 'global' situation. Your projection of events in one location to a nationwide phenomena is without evidence and the conclusions of elections since Ohio. But the biggest 'chunk' that undermines your whole point of view is that the number one problem in Florida that everyone involved, including Pat Buchannan agrees to; is that the election was made close when the Democratic supervisor of elections that changed the font on the 'butterfly ballots' so that elderly voters could see it more clearly and made the holes not line up clearly. If she hadn't done that Gore would have easily taken Florida.
Vote fraud does exist. It has even been done by Democrats. It is not however an example of a nationwide cospiracy which would have to be accomplished by a massive conspiracy involving hundreds of law abiding Secretaries of states and local election supervisors.
Your argument not only lacks intellectual rigor, it lacks facts, historical results that would support the logical projection that what happens in one local area is proof of that hundreds of others have joined in a national conspiracy. The results of many close elections where Democrats have won, and the firing of the federal prosecutors as outlined above, give heavy weight to the position that such a national conspiracy in fact does not exist.
No go fuck off on your 'lack of intellectual vigor', return to spreading completely unsupportable rumor mongering, and reduplicate the hysterical rant, which with the substitution of nounds, mirrors perfectly the conspiratorial tripe found at the Free Republic.
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