RSS Feed MenuDave Weigel alerts us to this amazing poll.
[A] 52% majority of GOP voters nationally think that ACORN stole the Presidential election for Barack Obama last year, with only 27% granting that he won it legitimately.
Some see this as proof of GOP paranoia. I see it as vindication of my theory of the four phases of reaction to a bad political defeat.
(1) We didn’t really lose.
(2) OK we lost, but only because the voters are idiots.
(3) OK we lost, and maybe the voters are not idiots, but there’s nothing we can do without betraying our sacred principles.
(4) Hey – maybe there’s something we can do.
The U.K. Conservatives have reached Phase 4. The PPP poll is more evidence that Republicans remain mired in phase 1. It’ll pass.
Hikaru // Nov 19, 2009 at 11:37 pm
There was A LOT of voter fraud during the primary and you can bet the majority was thanks to ACORN!
No. There was voter REGISTRATION fraud in the GENERAL election. I didn’t listen to the left barking about faulty machines in Ohio much, and I certainly don’t find much weight to your claim either.
Coincidently, only a few people and companies have been charged and convicted with voter fraud, and a majority of them were for Republicans. (Look up fraud in heavy minority or urban districts where they can’t afford the good machines, or lawyers to fight back.)
MI-GOPer // Nov 20, 2009 at 7:39 am
#6, #9???
Ahhh Mr Face, our newest troll character invented by either TeaBagged or BlankHead –let’s face it, automaticBS has neither the spelling skills nor the creativity for something so devious, so underhanded, so…. well, so democrat party’ish. Still working off that DNC Chair Terry McAuliffe manual: “How to screw the pooch and destroy the debate” are you?
Mr Face, you’ve been outed. Crawl back under the bridge and chum it up with the other DailyKos trolls, ok? Your 15 seconds of fame went past you without result.
MI-GOPer // Nov 20, 2009 at 7:58 am
Yet another democrat party activst far left troll complains: “Given the 53% to 46% divide between Obama and Sen. John McCain in the 2008 race, “in order to believe that Obama wasn’t the true winner of the 2008 election, one would have to think that ACORN (and perhaps other groups) stuffed ballots to the tune of over 9.5 million votes. Yeah, that doesn’t sound crazy at all.”
Only to a fire-eater like you, troll.
There is a very plausible and reasonable study done by academics this spring which shows that it could have been President McCain and Veep Palin if the tally had only switched some 443k votes nationwide. Ask BlankHead for the reference… he lost that argument bigtime already. Do you really think you can man-up where your best troll failed? LOL. We all love that the far Left likes to talk about mandates of the Obama Messiah… but like his WowBowKowTow to the fading Emperor of Japan, the Left flubs it up on this score, too.
Governing is serious and difficult, troll. Obama and the far Left radicals in his Cabinet –like Stedman-Holder and Timmie-the-Treasurer-TaxCheat are finding that out royally –no pun intended. All Bow to the Obama Messiah… ohmmmmmmmmm, All should love Barack Hussein Obama. Come on, sing it with me. It is futile to resist. The Borg will assimilate.
http://www.coalitionoftheswilling.net/archives/2009/06/barack_o_borg.html
MI-GOPer // Nov 20, 2009 at 8:03 am
Peyote writes: “Palin is an unmitigated disaster”.
Hey, thanks for not starting with the usual troll line of “I voted for Reagan but just can’t stand the Republicans anymore” or “I voted for Bush but the GOP drove me away”… or some other nonsense most of your tribe uses daily on this site –and probably many others.
Palin is such an unmitigated disater that her polling on favorables has jumped 7 points in the last week and Barrie O’s has lost 4-7 points this week, depending on whether or not you need to consult so-called democrat pollsters for solace or if you can take the truth.
MI-GOPer // Nov 20, 2009 at 8:18 am
tdawg weighs in, yet again, sigh: “It’s been years and years, yet people still don’t know the difference between voter registration fraud (i.e. making up fake registration forms to scam ACORN et al for money) and voter fraud (ballot stuffing).” You nailed it on “years and years”; you guys have been doing the vote fraud thing for a while.
tdawg, really dude, take off that SEIU jacket and tinfoil hat and think for a second. No one makes the distinction because it is irrelevant. Frauding vote officials by turning in bogus registrations so that ACORN can coordinate legions of fellow-trolls, paid by the US taxpayer, to then vote multiple times in urban, pro-Obama areas of swing states is still vote fraud. The Democrats have to get the fake names on the rolls or use dead people’s names… which is trickier. But it doesn’t matter.
It’s all debasing the integrity of the vote. And you can wonder why Americans don’t trust Democrats when it comes to election reform? It is no small point that when most people think of the birth of voter fraud they think two things: Chicago and Democrats like Daley. Funny that Obama and his Chicago Cronies cover both touchstones, eh?
Vote fraud, voter registration fraud? No distinction because it’s all debasing the integrity of the vote and our democratic institutions… I know, I know, that doesn’t matter to you. You’re more worried about using vote fraud in Afghanistan as a predicate to announce Obama’s “Cut & Run: VietNam Part Deux” plan. Imagine that??? Obama lecturing Karzai on vote fraud? He’d be better off giving Karzai tips on how to conceal it and litigate contests. Obama is a crook.
MR FACE // Nov 20, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Mi-Gopher-
You are so dramatic. You are obsessed with the word troll.
My comment #9 was actually a dig at Obama. I think he is really struggling right now. And so is our country. He has made a lot of mistakes. I will admit it.
The problem is you won’t admit to any mistakes by conservatives or republicans. They can do no wrong in your eyes.