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Home Front: Politix
In 59 Philadelphia voting divisions, Mitt Romney got zero votes
2012-11-13
[Philly] It's one thing for a Democratic presidential candidate to dominate a Democratic city like Philadelphia, but check out this head-spinning figure: In 59 voting divisions in the city, Willard Mitt Romney
...former governor of Massachussetts, currently the Publican nominee for president. He is the son of the former governor of Michigan, George Romney, who himself ran for president after saving American Motors from failure, though not permanently. Romney has a record as a successful businessman, heading Bain Capital, and he rescued the 2002 Winter Olympics from the midst of bribery and mismanagement scandals. More to the point, he isn't President B.O...
received not one vote. Zero. Zilch.

These are the kind of numbers that send Republicans into paroxysms of voter-fraud angst, but such results may not be so startling after all.

"We have always had these dense urban corridors that are extremely Democratic," complacently said Jonathan Rodden, a political science professor at Stanford University.
...contributed $595,716 to the 2008 Obama campaign. Is there a reason universities are among the top financiers of political campaigns?
"It's kind of an urban fact, and you are looking at the extreme end of it in Philadelphia."

Most big cities are politically homogeneous, with 75 percent to 80 percent of voters identifying as Democrats.

Cities are not only bursting with Democrats: They are easier to organize than rural areas where people live far apart from one another, said Sasha Issenberg, author of The Victory Lab: The Secret Science of Winning Campaigns.

"One reason Democrats can maximize votes in Philadelphia is that it's very easy to knock on every door," Issenberg said.

Still, was there not one contrarian voter in those 59 divisions, where unofficial vote tallies have President B.O. outscoring Romney by a combined 19,605 to 0?

The unanimous support for Obama in these Philadelphia neighborhoods - clustered in almost exclusively black sections of West and North Philadelphia - fertilizes fears of fraud, despite little hard evidence.

Upon hearing the numbers, Steve Miskin, a front man for Republicans in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, brought up his party's voter-identification initiative - which was held off for this election - and said, "We believe we need to continue ensuring the integrity of the ballot."
"Continue" implies some movement in that direction now.
Posted by:Fred

#12  Correction:

...where the New Black Panther Party made an appearance?
Posted by: CrazyFool   2012-11-13 16:06  

#11  Were these the polling places where the NPBPP made an appearance? As observers of course (aking down license plate numbers, names, addresses, you know - that kind of observing...)

Serious Question.
Posted by: CrazyFool   2012-11-13 16:04  

#10  And not a UN poll monitor in sight...
Posted by: Thusort Ebbomoting1144   2012-11-13 15:45  

#9  rjs - maybe there were a few glitches, and they just happened to reverse the few Republican votes in those precincts. (I didn't type this - a monkey banging on my keyboard just randomly hit this sequence of characters.)
Posted by: Glenmore   2012-11-13 15:12  

#8  Nice that there was not a single glitch or accidentally incorrect vote. Statistically that's gotta be a first. Perhaps these voters should be sent down to Florida to train the locals there.
Posted by: rjschwarz   2012-11-13 15:07  

#7  the wards where R&R got 0 use the grab and drag method

they round people up in the neighborhoods and bring them to the polls, give them coercive instructions, and in some cases, after kickin out Republican poll watchers, help with the machines

if they can continue to kick out the poll watchers, the ID requirement won't matter

of course, the coercive instructioning is also illegal but could only be stopped with witnesses willing to testify
Posted by: lord garth   2012-11-13 14:34  

#6  
Posted by: ChuffingChuffChuff   2012-11-13 13:03  

#5  "Upon hearing the numbers, Steve Miskin, a front man for Republicans in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, brought up his party's voter-identification initiative"

I don't see how voter identification is going to help if they scored no votes in 59 divisions. It might help if you're claiming your percentage is too low, or the other guys got too many votes. But it doesn't help where you polled zero.

Ain't some people sore losers?
Posted by: ChuffingChuffChuff   2012-11-13 13:00  

#4  not one voter ID state went for OBumble

Virginia has voter ID. PA will next time.
Posted by: Creresing Barnsmell5798   2012-11-13 12:58  

#3  Not one swing state went for R&R and not one voter ID state went for OBumble and the crazy Uncle. Since a great number of these states used Diedold systems in the counting or voting process, can it not be suspected that electronic fraud or manipulation was at work as well as the traditional theft/fraud in the usual places. This stinks to high heaven......
Posted by: NoMoreBS   2012-11-13 12:54  

#2  If Obama can keep his personal background a mystery and hide it for years, he can manufacture as many votes as he needs to get elected and re-elected; yes even 110%.
Posted by: JohnQC   2012-11-13 09:02  

#1  Whereas Obama got 110%?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2012-11-13 07:56  

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