WE WIN, YOU LOSE
Posted on 11/09/2022 1:29:06 PM PST by MtnClimber
Well, that was disheartening, dispiriting, and demoralizing. We went into the party with a president with some of the lowest approval ratings in history and Americans (at least according to the polls) focused like lasers on issues that could be chalked up to Democrat policy failures — namely, inflation and crime. And yet Republicans are hanging on by a thread, and, as of this writing, it's still possible that Democrats will retain their majority in the House and gain a full majority in the Senate. If that happens, the American experiment is over, and the Marxist experiment truly begins.
So how did we get here?
In a way, the easiest answer is that our election system is completely corrupt. It's easy to blame the GOP for letting that happen, but Mollie Hemingway reminds us that a corrupt judge and a forty-year-long consent decree meant that, beginning in 1981, "The RNC had been prohibited by law from helping with poll watcher efforts or nearly any voting-related litigation."
That forty-year period gave the Democrats the ability to lay the groundwork for a fortress of election corruption. Then, thanks to COVID, the Democrats were able to build high walls for that fortress, walls built from mail-in ballots; drop boxes; ballot-harvesting; driver's licenses for illegal aliens; no ID for actual elections; endless pre-elections; and, most importantly, machines that can be gamed.
In my state, for example, poll workers give us sheets of paper that we feed into a voting machine. We enter our choices on the screen and then, when we're done, that piece of paper comes back to us with all our choices printed upon it. We then bring the paper to a scanner that instantly counts the votes.
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All because the left wants a banana republic.
House about to go GOP, and 55 percent chance of the Senate is a big freaking deal.
100% correct. Biden and Dems want a banana republic with no laws while they live in compounds.
“That forty-year period gave the Democrats the ability to lay the groundwork for a fortress of election corruption. “
This.
I'm going to go cry in my beer....
We need to redefine what pro life means and what pro life action looks like. Instead of focusing on a ban and the ban lobbyists, let’s focus our funds and efforts on helping moms decide to keep the baby. Otherwise this is costing us way too many votes and results in severe other damage to our country.
As the political discussion centers on the 2022 wins and losses from the midterm election, one thing that stands out in similarity to the 2020 general election is the difference between ballots (counted) and votes (cast). It appears in some states this is the ‘new normal.’
Where votes were the focus the Biden administration suffered losses. Where ballots were the focus the Biden administration won.
Perhaps the two states most reflective of ‘ballots’ being more important than ‘votes’ are Michigan and Pennsylvania. Despite negative polling and public opinion toward two specific candidates in those states, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer and Pennsylvania Senate candidate John Fetterman, achieved victories. The Democrat machines in both states focused on ballot collection more heavily than votes cast.
Since the advent of ballot-centric focus through mail-in processes and collection drop off processes, votes have become increasingly less valuable amid the organizers who wish to control election outcomes. As a direct and specific result, ballot collection has become the key to Democrat party success.
The effort to attain votes for candidates is less important than the strategy of collecting ballots.
It should be emphasized; these are two distinctly different voting systems.
The system of ballot distribution and collection is far more susceptible to control than the traditional system of votes cast at precincts.
A vote cannot be cast by a person who is no longer alive, or no longer lives in the area. However, a ballot can be sent, completed and returned regardless of the status of the initially attributed and/or registered individual.
While ballots and votes originate in two totally different processes, the end result of both “ballots” and “votes,” weighing on the presented election outcome, is identical.
While initially the ballot form of election control was tested in Deep Blue states, through the process of mail-in returns under the guise and justification of “expanding democracy,” a useful tool for those who are vested in the distinction, I think we are now starting to see what happens on a national level when the process is expanded.
The controversial 2020 election showed the result of making ‘ballots’ the strategy for electoral success. Under the justification of COVID-19 mitigation, mail-in ballots took center stage. Ballot harvesting by Democrat operations was one term for the outcome.
Democrat party officials and political activist groups knew how to exploit the opportunities within the new system of ballot distribution and collection, and when you combine that with a massive legal pressure campaign to accept any and all forms of ballots, well, you can see how they are dependent.
Now that ballot collection has been shown to be a much more effective way to maintain political power, Democrats in a general sense are less focused on winning votes and more focused on gathering ballots.
When ‘ballot organization’ becomes more important than ‘vote winning,’ you modify your electoral campaign approaches accordingly. It might sound simplistic, but inside the distinct difference between ballots and votes you will find why refusing debates is a successful strategy.
If you are trying to win votes you could never fathom campaign success by refusing to debate an opponent. However, if your focus is centered around ballot collection, the debate is essentially irrelevant.
It’s time for voters to start seeing the difference between elections decided by ballots and elections decided by votes. Perhaps the 2022 midterm election will awaken people to the two completely different election systems.
You can vote at any scale you want, but when ballots are more important than votes – the election will always favor the latter.
Michigan and Pennsylvania voters are likely very unhappy today, while Michigan and Pennsylvania ballot providers are smiling.
Republicans?
Actually I’d go back further
Nixon should have fought the stolen Election in 1960
Why did the republicans agree to such a thing in when the democrats didn’t?
I have no idea how this Red ripple happened.
I mean we do have former President Donald Trump on our side don’t we?
Donald Trump: “While in certain ways yesterday’s election was somewhat disappointing, from my personal standpoint it was a very big victory – 219 WINS and 16 Losses in the General – Who has ever done better than that?” he wrote.
Probably RINOs who either preferred to lose or were trying to fight back at Reagan like they now do to Trump.
How typical! I have NEVER see a group of people who are so good at shooting themselves in the foot.
More likely it was Republicans afraid of the Race Card!
The difference between ballots (counted) and votes (cast). It appears in some states this is the ‘new normal.
The system is rigged Jim
Until that happens, any/all suspicions will be valid in the era of absentee for all.
Why have an election day, when most candidates/issues are literally decided months in advance?
...in that case "Election Day" just becomes "Suckers Day"...for those who take the time to go to the polls, believing they actually make a difference...when the reality is, the joke's on them.
Face it, a lot of dead soviet era communists/others are laughing in their graves today.
A lot of veterans/patriots are not.
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