Mayberry Machiavelli
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Tue Jan-19-10 06:02 PM
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Diebold paranoiacs, why did Obama win if it's so fixable? |
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Don't get me wrong, I am unhappy with the unaccountable nature of most electronic voting systems, I vote in a state that uses the Diebold tablets. I have posted about my concerns and ideas for better systems in the past.
It's just that it seems to strain credulity that if the GOP could rig things in their favor they would pass up the presidential election and wait for a MA Senate race to do so.
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Tue Jan-19-10 06:03 PM
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1. It wasn't close enough to fix. n/t |
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Tue Jan-19-10 07:23 PM
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17. Agreed. Plus their operatives were discouraged by the economy. |
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So, they had fewer locations and fewer operatives gung-ho to commit crimes.
They're waiting in the wings. We're talking big money. They won't go hungry waiting the way we might.
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Tue Jan-19-10 07:25 PM
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18. That's exactly right. n/t |
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Tue Jan-19-10 07:26 PM
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:38 PM
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30. I think Obama actually won by 20 million votes |
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They did steal a lot, but it was such a runaway, they couldn't pull it off.
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Wed Jan-20-10 09:44 AM
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38. Exactly...the American people voted overwhelmingly for change NOT getting along w a couple of |
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Tue Jan-19-10 06:03 PM
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:popcorn:
Double butter for "'They' wanted him to win."
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Mayberry Machiavelli
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Tue Jan-19-10 06:06 PM
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5. You got your double butter with reply #4, promptly too! |
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Tue Jan-19-10 06:03 PM
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3. It was time for Dems to take the blame for the Republican clusterfuck... |
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Some Republicans have actually said as much.
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Tue Jan-19-10 06:04 PM
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4. Because the entrenched big money/power interests wanted him to win? |
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Tue Jan-19-10 07:37 PM
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22. That's my household's take on this too. |
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Edited on Tue Jan-19-10 07:39 PM by truedelphi
It took the spouse about six months to agree that the fix was in, not in terms of election machinery, but in that we live in a one party nation that likes the "Bad Cop, Good Cop" paradigm.
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Tue Jan-19-10 07:41 PM
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24. I think the "powers-that-be" decided that the |
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Bush/Republican façade had fallen out of favor so they decided to install a different façade that was more user-friendly. The same machinations behind the scenes still go on though no matter who the public figures are.
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Tue Jan-19-10 07:40 PM
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23. That's just stupid..the people wanted him |
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Tue Jan-19-10 09:23 PM
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Edited on Tue Jan-19-10 09:24 PM by conscious evolution
As far as I am concerned that is exactly why he won. The cops aren't the only ones that play good cop/bad cop.
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Tue Jan-19-10 06:08 PM
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6. The polls have to be close for a fix to be plausible.... |
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Within 3%.
They weren't in 2008. A fix would've been too obvious.
That is why the polls mysteriously went from Coakley +15 to Brown +9 in two weeks. To make the theft plausible.
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Tue Jan-19-10 06:41 PM
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14. Not to quibble but... |
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Tue Jan-19-10 07:55 PM
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27. True, but many polls advertise a " margin of error" anywhere up to 5% in either direction |
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which gives you 10 points to fuck around with, potentially.
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Wed Jan-20-10 09:40 AM
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3 + 5 = 8, not 10
I wish it were as easy as saying the GOP stole last night's election but not even the democrat SoS believes that. The reason? I won't hijack the thread. I'm going to bump my post from last night with my post-mortum read.
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Tue Jan-19-10 06:09 PM
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8. Maybe the people who would have done the fixing knew they'd have |
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Edited on Tue Jan-19-10 06:10 PM by salguine
no worries about Obama changing anything?
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Tue Jan-19-10 06:17 PM
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9. No, they just knew that Democrats would eat their own in no time flat..... |
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so they could just come in time to get blamed, and then be replaced pronto.
They've seen us at our game before, and this is what we do best.... If it's not exactly how we say it should be, we whine till a Republican comes in and starts the clusterfuck all over again.
It's called the Democratic Win-Whine-Wimp Bubble.
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Tue Jan-19-10 06:24 PM
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10. Because Obama and his administration are all "cooperative" Dems. |
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Not saying that he's behind any shenanigans; just saying that it's not as if Obama has governed from the left of center or anything since he's been in. Politics = theater, Trojan horse, etc. - choose the metaphor/analogy that fits.
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Tue Jan-19-10 06:25 PM
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11. republicans did not want to clean up the mess they had made. |
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they wanted the democrats to do it. Someone to blame.
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Tue Jan-19-10 06:29 PM
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Some people can't accept defeat without having an excuse as to why they lost.
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Tue Jan-19-10 06:36 PM
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13. who said it was "SO FIXABLE"? It is fixable. It requires SOS or someone in place, like Ken Brown |
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Edited on Tue Jan-19-10 06:38 PM by KittyWampus
in Ohio.
It also requires close polling prior to election.
And a compliant and complicit media.
Oh, and a weakened opponent with insufficient infrastructure in place before the election in the event there is malfeasance.
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Tue Jan-19-10 09:22 PM
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35. I'm pretty sure almost every state office in Massachusetts is held by Democrats |
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Tue Jan-19-10 06:58 PM
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15. Thought you had 'em, using logic and all. |
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Tue Jan-19-10 07:16 PM
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16. The Democratic turnout was so overwhelming |
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that they couldn't fix it. They need to have a 'close race' to get away with fixing it. That's why no matter how far ahead a Democrat is at the beginning of the campaign by the time election day rolls around they're neck to neck in the polls. It's all fake and a racket.
That's the same reason we won in 2006. Voter turnout.
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Tue Jan-19-10 07:28 PM
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Dark horse candidate who wasn't going to, and hasn't changed much at all.
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Tue Jan-19-10 07:32 PM
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21. Yeah. Why would they allow such a transfomative change agent to take control? |
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Tue Jan-19-10 07:52 PM
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26. Turnout is the one thing that beats electro-fraud |
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The machines are designed to rig close elections, so they can claim the polls were off "within the margin of error" when the wrong candidate "wins".
This is something President Obama really needs to keep in mind for 2012. People who hadn't voted in years turned out for a candidate who said "Yes We Can" change this corrupt system. That turnout won't be the same for an incumbent President who didn't.
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Tue Jan-19-10 07:58 PM
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What you don't understand is our President and his campaign team did what most other politicians are trying to emulate. He got his numbers first.And he had enough good people on the democratic team to become challengers at polling districts they had attorneys ready to go,he had a lot of things in place to deter fraud.The repugs have tried to do this in MA by getting their people on the ground early with the crazy troll army.The machines in question were used during our presidents election,but it could not lie with numbers in the registrations or the lines at the polls.
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:40 PM
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31. There wasn't a full moon that night. |
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Tue Jan-19-10 08:43 PM
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I haven't yet called 1-800-ILLUMINATI to figure out what happened to that one.
Weird.
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Tue Jan-19-10 09:17 PM
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33. Obama won by too large of a margin to fix. |
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IMO the actual margin of victory may have in even larger than the "official" numbers.
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Tue Jan-19-10 09:20 PM
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34. Additionally why do we assume it's rigged for Republicans? |
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Democrats hold pretty much every office in the state of Massachusetts including the ones that count the votes. Why do we assume the machines are rigged for Republicans?
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