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Date: 10/14/2008 11:40:03 AM
Author: MoonWater
Date: 10/14/2008 11:32:05 AM
Author: beebrisk
Date: 10/14/2008 11:14:09 AM
Author: MoonWater
Date: 10/14/2008 10:57:01 AM
Author: beebrisk
Date: 10/14/2008 8:46:17 AM
Author: MoonWater
Date: 10/13/2008 9:54:20 PM
Author: beebrisk
Date: 10/12/2008 1:07:05 PM
Author:miraclesrule
And so it begins on absentee ballots. My gut tells me that this years election voting and ballot scandals will make the Butterfly ballot look like child''s play.
I think you''ll find that to be true...But ONLY if McCain wins.
Let''s look back:
2000-Bush elected. Hanging chad fiasco. Cries of Republicans ''stealing'' the election.
2004-Bush re-elected. Voting machine inquiries. Voter fraud accusations.''Disenfranchisement'' becomes the word of the day.
2006-Democrats sweep House and Senate. Amazingly, the election seemed to go off without a hint of fraud or scandal.
See what I''m getting at here?
Interesting, because in 2004 and 2006 it was the GOP that was crying.
That was my point. There was no crying. Not a single Dem railing about chads, disenfranchisement, voter intimidation, etc.
Yup, that election went off without a hitch! And if Obama wins this one, no one will be complaining about bad ballots and broken machines. Instead the election of 2008 will be hailed as the perfect example of democracy in action!
Your statement is not factual...but it sounds good.
Ok, it''s not surprising that if the election goes in favor of Repubs it is the Dems that whine and cry, just as if the election goes in favor of Dems (or appears that it will), Repubs whine and cry. So I''m not sure of your point there.
I''m sure if Obama wins, the Republicans will keep harping about voter fraud just as they did in 2004 and 2006, and as they are now right before this election. This is nothing new. The point of my post is that whining about voter fraud as it relates to multiple/dead voters registering while it does not translate into more votes being casts is just a way to get people''s panties in a bunch.
What part of my statement isn''t factual?
...That the GOP whines and cries when the Dem''s win.
There was no sweeping outcry in 2006 when the Dems took power. Nothing like when the Dem''s claimed that Bush ''stole'' the election--not once, but twice! You''d swear there wasn''t a correctly functioning voting machine in the entire 50 states.
Sheesh. Hollywood liberals even made a movie or two about the GOP''s ''manipulation'' of the polls.
You do not hear this coming from Republicans. Please tell me of one serious effort by the GOP to amend an election that the Dems won.
Well, I never said they cried when Dems won in my intial post. I was referring to the stink they made about voter fraud in 2004 and 2006 (that is a fact, use google). Both parties hype up issues of voter fraud when they are worried about an outcome or have faced the outcome. I don''t think it is remotely surprising at the outcry from the 2000 election because it was so close. You make this out to be some huge issue that only Dems take part in. Both parties of guilty of whining.
Arguments should be backed up by fact...Otherwise they are not worth perusing.
There is nothing remotely equivalent in the GOP''s history as the outrage from the Dems in 2000 and 2004. That outrage completely dissipated when they took the House and Senate in 2006. No rallying cries of "fraud" were heard--on either side.
Again, your contention that the GOP did the same in 2006 is inaccurate and not based on fact.