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2008-09-09 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Mike 2008-09-09 09:19|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Obama will be lucky to get the second district in the very blue state of Maine. Maine allocates electors district by district, and the 2nd is rural, white, and overwhelmingly independent. It's only 1 elector, but still.

Posted by Minister of funny walks 2008-09-09 11:12|| 2008-09-09 11:12|| Front Page Top

#2 . . and it's an article of faith in the moonbat fever swamps that the Bush team "stole" the Ohio election.

A bit OT but interesting -

It was my unhappy duty to fly out of Columbus to Dulles after the 2004 election with a planeload of 'news' correspondents and hired-gun election law lawyers at the end of the review of the election results and tabulation.

I honestly think I was the only civilian on the aircraft and these guys/gals were speaking candidly amongst themselves.

The lawyers - to a person - were convinced there were no irregularities in the voting tabulation. The results were well within the 'normal' and expected amount of fraud, double counting, lost ballots, and ghost voters.

The news staffers, expecially the CNN folks, were livid that they were unsuccessful in their attempts to gin up a fraud story. After they settled down, they did what they do best - making plans to get l**d and hitting on anything in a skirt. Even the lawyers were disgusted.

And that is saying something.

Posted by GORT 2008-09-09 11:26|| 2008-09-09 11:26|| Front Page Top

#3 One of the guys at Bros. Judd said ACORN distributed 300K absentee ballots.

Don't count our chickens yet............

Posted by anonymous2u 2008-09-09 11:41|| 2008-09-09 11:41|| Front Page Top

#4 Gort - very understandable - I've got a bit of history in Ohio, and most of the reports struck me as outsider ignorance, if not outright fantasy.

For perspective, I'm now in Chicagoland, and it's noteworthy that the city regularly "loses" between 100,000 and 300,000 ballots in the biennial elections. You don't hear much about that at all.

Posted by Halliburton - Asymmetrical Reply Division 2008-09-09 20:57|| 2008-09-09 20:57|| Front Page Top

#5 Even the lawyers were disgusted.

Me, three dead guys and a Mr. M. Mouse all vote for that as Snark o' the Day.

Posted by SteveS 2008-09-09 21:46|| 2008-09-09 21:46|| Front Page Top

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