And not armed with high-caliber fully automatic assault sticks.
I heard he opened the door in a threatening manner.
Speaking of all that nefarious voter fraud going on, over in Colorado, there were more minorities showing up to the polls than this poll watcher sees out at the malls and stuff. Is anybody looking into this? Where are these extra people coming from?
I spent a nauseated few hours listening to right wing hate radio today…
They claim (Hannity does) that there were 20 districts in Cleveland where there were absolutely zero votes for Romney, and also that there were several districts in Philadelphia where there were zero votes for Romney.
Is there ANY truth to this? I find it impossible to believe. I can’t believe that there would be any sizable district anywhere in the U.S. where there were no votes for Romney. I also can’t believe that grotesquely overt fraud in vote-counting took place, not at this kind of level.
Where did these guys get their story?
From their nether regions?
Its hardly out of the ordinary. You’d have to realize that a voting precinct can receive anywhere from a few hundred to a dozen votes. I looked at a smattering of votes in downtown LA. From what a remember, Romney got single digit votes in some of them, compared to hundreds for Obama. I heard this same story on liberal talk radio who mentioned that in some districts in Philadelphia where Obama got 100% of the votes. I’d be interested in seeing if Romney had any districts where he got all the votes. As of now, we’re only getting half the story and no context
As Ruk once said, “That was the equation!” (Minimum daily requirement of Star Trek references.) I somehow had the idea that voting precincts were larger than that.
(Played by Hannity. Ick. I feel so dirty…)
Yup. There’s a story torching the butthurtosphere that a precinct in Cleveland went 100% for Obama, and that several more precincts had zero votes cast for Romney. Didn’t seem to be a fake story, and doesn’t seem outside the realm of legitimate possibility. Did they think that if they tried to disenfranchise traditionally hostile voters all year they’d just wake up November 6 and say “you know what, maybe I will vote Republican after all”?
That’s what I am butthurt about: the Republican whining about “wha wha boo the minorities are voting against us because they want free stuff” like they all just woke up November 7 and had no idea what had been going on the whole year. Try going a year without shitting on 25% of the country, Republicans, please. You’d be surprised where you’ll go.
It has to be fraud, everybody knows that America is a conservative country, center right at most. And everybody knows that the vast majority of real Americans wholly endorse the Republican positions. How then to explain when they lose? Gee, that’s a tough one…
I thought the head of the party was Renice Prebius, not Dale Gribble.
No, if Gribble were in charge, we’d be having to rebut Fox News’ reports about how Obama traveled to Mars in 1981 as part of a CIA teleportation program run out of a community college in Weed, CA.
Like hail on the plains, it continues -
GOP chief: Mystery black voters
“The head of Maine’s Republican Party is claiming unknown groups of black people showed up in the state’s towns and cast ballots on election day.”
and
“Everybody has a right to vote, but nobody in town knows anyone who’s black. How did that happen? I don’t know. We’re going to find out.”
Sure. Here are the election results in Cuyahoga County. That page has all the numbers on all the races, and so is rather lengthy, but just search for “Obama” and scroll down to the Cleveland precincts. Total votes in each precinct are typically in the 400-700 range, and there are a buttload of precincts where Romney got single digits of votes, and a dozen or so where that single digit was zero.
Here are election results in Philadelphia County. There you have to select ward and division, so it’s a bit of a time investement if you want to see all the divisions, but like Cleveland, there are a number of divisions where Romney got single digits of votes (Philadelphia divisions seem to be the same size or a bit smaller than Cleveland wards, with about 300-500 votes in each). In 3-14, for example, the count was Obama 488, Romney 0.
Oh, by the way, compare that to the 2008 election results, where John McCain received single digits of votes in a bunch of precincts, and zero in some; and the 2004 election results, where George Bush received single digits of votes in a bunch of precincts (but no zero totals in normal-sized precincts); and the 2000 election results, where George Bush received single digits of votes in a bunch of precincts, and zero in some.
More to the point, it’s kind of dumb to see a zero result and immediately suspect vote fraud in precincts that have typically gone Democratic by 98-100%.
From the article:
Pop of Maine = 1.3 million. 1.2 percent of that is 15,840.
Dear Mr. Webster: I’m sure you don’t know any black people, as you’re probably isolated in your cultural bubble. However, there are thousands of black people living in Maine. Just because you’re unaware of their existence does not mean they are invisible. I’d suggest if you “want to find out” what is going on, that you educated yourself about the people who live in your state.
It’s getting beyond pathetic when an individual considers the color of your skin to be enough evidence of you casting a fraudulent vote. What century is this anyway? Does anyone think this behaviour is going to get any Republicans elected next election?
Some of his best friends are not from Maine.
I’m sure there are many precincts in Montana and Utah that had zero votes for Obama. Sound the fraud claxon! Aoooogah!
Yep. There’s no reason to think that every district has a demographic spread that’s even remotely representative of the country as a whole. Getting upset over this just shows a lack of basic statistical reasoning.
…and that’s not even getting into the problem of gerrymandering, where the entire point is to make districts as unrepresentative as possible.
To be fair, I would expect that Republican-leaning precincts in Montana or Utah would be less homogeneously Republican than inner-city Philadelphia or Cleveland is homogeneously Democratic; so I would be surprised if there were any precincts of the same size (300-700 voters) that went 100% for Romney. (For example, the Wyoming SOS site is fairly easy to browse through. It looks like, of the entire state, there were no Obama voters in exactly four precincts. The largest of those, in Niobrara County, had only 60 voters.)
So who is the next person to be too crazy for Fox™ like Beck was in the end?