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November 05, 2008 09:44 PM UTC
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but it wasn’t for lack of trying.
Part of the reason it wasn’t successful this year is that people made a big deal out of any attempt. Also, we had more ethical Republicans this year (Coffman here and Charlie Crist in Florida, for example) than in prior years.
By what definition was Coffman’s behavior “ethical” this year? He did his level best to disenfranchise thousands of voters and was only stopped because of litigation.
It wasn’t a high standard compared to Harris and Blackwell.
Money talks and the inundation of political ads from Barack and other candidates proved it! Not a color, sex or religion thing, just getting people to vote and naturally even if people don’t understand the issues (most don’t) they want change when things go bad. Voter turnout was highest since1960, but they won’t be there next round because Joe six-pack is mainly concerned with what affects him. Tues eve I met a 39 yr-old man who said he voted for the 1st time and further stated, “Now with all three, the House, Senate and Congress being Democratic we can get something done!”. Regardless, the President doesn’t control global economies, nor does he make US laws, so let’s hope Senate and Congress get off their buns and pass some legislation and budgets to get the economy moving… otherwise we’ll see the current recession turn in to a depression. With financial backing like Warren Buffet, how can you lose? Neither McSlain or Osama have the experience to run a large company much less the complexities of the USA. Too bad we didn’t have someone ‘like a Buffet or Lee Iacocca” with vast global financial markets and strong managerial skills and experience run for Pres.
I got so tired of their handwringing and assuming the worst at every turn. You couldn’t turn your head and cough out “I like Obama’s chances this year!” without hearing lamentations about how Colorado was going to be worse than Florida 2000. Jeez. Last night was a perfect example of how, in the end, they had nuthin’. Imagine that – even a state with a GOP SoS can still run a decent and credible election!
That’s not say that the GOP never engages in questionable tactics. All I’m saying is that if you keep reflexively crying ‘Wolf!’ every single election, unfortunately you’re not going to be taken seriously the one time serious election shenanigans do become important. Type I errors and all that.
…because of lots of diligence by citizens.
Ya think?
It’s not fear mongering. It was a reminder to be vigilant. Who is to say that hyper-vigilance isn’t what kept this election reasonably honest? And we shouldn’t stop being hyper-vigilant because when we do we’ll get screwed again.
Of course there were still dirty trick attempts like telling people the election day had been changed, that students voting where they attended school could no longer be claimed as dependents by there parents in home states, that people with outstanding traffic violations would be arrested at the polls, etc. These “tricks” ought to be considered treason and punished accordingly.
In general, we should thank those who kept us on our toes this time around, though claiming “It’s already stolen” was the kind of hyperbole Palast sometimes indulges in.
Even so, why keep bleating about how ‘The Election Is Already Stolen!!!1!’ when there’s no clear evidence for it? That’s what I’m going on about.
By all means, be vigilant. But enough with the exaggerations.
And they stole Florida. Then we did cry wolf in 2004 and they stole Ohio and New Mexico anyway. The only way to approach the problem was to publicize it so well in advance, and flood the system with so many watchers, that the GOP was stuck with no shadowy corners to hide in.
The precinct I worked had 13 provisional ballots out of 235, divided 50:50 between people who somehow screwed up their mail ballots, and people who moved. There was one deaf voter and one really drunk guy.
One of the reasons I’m so cheerful today is that the system worked. I don’t feel like we held some kind of shameful excuse for a banana republic election yesterday.
We won’t be fooled again.
Yes you had some people out on the edges crying it would be stolen. Mostly you had people who looked at what occured previously and fought all similiar actions this year – and because of that we had a fair vote.
But keep in mind that it did require those legal battles to have that fair vote.
that John McCain is president…;-)
This is exactly right.
The main reason there are few complaints about the election being stolen is that the Dem candidate won.
Pretty simple.
that asnd the fact that the ds finally came up with a candidate worth voting for, so they didn’t have to manufacture conspiracy theories to explain why voters rejected their $400 haircuts sitting on top of two-bit minds. (Kerry, anyone…?)
The real reason you’re not hearing complaints about the election being stolen is because it wasn’t.
just as everyone now knows the level of state sponsored voter suppression in Ohio in 2004 under a Republican SOS was off the charts.
Of course it was weak candidates and poorly run campaigns that allowed those elections to be close enough to be so easily derailed. Obama’s great campaign and decisive win was the real key here. It would have been next door to impossible to cheat him out of enough of the states he won.
Funny how Bush claimed mandate in 2004 with a two point win and the rightie pundits are already crying “no mandate!” for Obama’s far more decisive electoral AND popular win.
You’re seriously going to have to stop being such a victim now.
I don’t know if you’ve seen the news lately, but you are now the bully.
BTW, where are we all meeting for a drink now that this is over?
Remember all the meltdowns over nasty obstructionist Tom Daschle, or John Boehner’s crying, or Tom Delay’s oppression by evil Democrat laws?
I’m trying to decide whether a set of brass knuckles or a handkerchief is the better strategy for us.
I nominate the Wynkoop for those of us in the Denco area. I’ll buy you the first two beers for voting for Obama, but I want one from you for voting for whats’his-name (the poor ‘pub who ran against DeGette). Okay, I’m kidding about that…
I’ll see if I can
stick my wife with the kidsget away for the evening. 😉And I do blame lousy Dem campaigns and strategy in 2000 and 2004 for allowing the elections to be close enough for stealing. But the fact remains, while it may be stupid for me to leave my key in an unlocked car, if someone steals it they’re still a thief.
The reason it’s not an issue is because it wasn’t even close. If it had come down to Minnesota, for instance, you’d be hearing lots about it.
A Dem had lost. I stand by my statement.
Also, the only documented poll intimidation I saw from Tuesday was the armed thug dressed as a Black Panther in Philly.
There were problems: were they malice or incompetance? Who knows, but a good voter protection program can help in both situations.
In 2000, some of us still believed that the GOP believed in the same country of laws that the rest of us believe in.
To quote that eminent scholar George W. Bush “Fool me once shame on me, Won’t get fooled again.”
but, it is very hard to get away with more.
A good get out the vote machine can increase turnout by 3-4%. Measures that discourage voting have a similar impact.
The advent of early and mail-in voting has also reduced the need to make lots of hard calls in a short chaotic period of time.
A good measure of how much mischief has gone on will come when we learn how many provisional ballots were cast, and how many inactive voters actually voted.
Realistically, the order of magnitude for problems in this election in Colorado is somewhere in the low thousands to low tens of thousands of votes, with voter registration mischief playing the largest part. This is something on the order of 1% of the vote, and of course, those denied a chance to vote, while predominantly Democrats and then unaffiliated voters, are not monolithic, and are the same people who often tend to undervote or making ballot completion mistakes.
In most races, 1% is too small to matter. But, there are a few races every year where the outcome is very close, and in those races it does matter. Fortunately, this year, those very close races don’t impact who holds political power in the state.
You can only cheat so much. But historically, that is not true.
Technology has made a difference from the days of little communication when disabling or intimidating the few witnesses made the cheating valid.
Am I misreading you, or is it your claim that voter registration problems resulted in thousands of problem votes in Colorado? If so, that is contrary to the best research on voter fraud (from such sources as the Brennan Center), which shows that the casting and counting of an ineligible vote is extremely rare.
Certainly, every year there are problems with voter registrations, which the good people at the county clerks’ offices sort out so that ineligible votes are not cast. But problem votes is different from problem registrations. Can you clarify your meaning, or provide your evidence?
Money talks and the inundation of political ads from Barack and other candidates proved it! Not a color, sex or religion thing, just getting people to vote and naturally even if people don’t understand the issues (most don’t) they want change when things go bad. Voter turnout was highest since1960, but they won’t be there next round because Joe six-pack is mainly concerned with what affects him. Tues eve I met a 39 yr-old man who said he voted for the 1st time and further stated, “Now with all three, the House, Senate and Congress being Democratic we can get something done!”. Regardless, our President doesn’t control global economies, nor does he make US laws, so let’s hope Senate and Congress get off their buns and pass some legislation and budgets to get the economy moving… otherwise we’ll see the current recession turn in to a depression. With Obama having financial backing like Warren Buffet, how can you lose? Neither McSlain or Osama have the experience to run a large company much less the complexities of the USA. Too bad we didn’t have someone ‘like a Buffet or Lee Iacocca” with vast global financial markets and strong managerial skills elected.