Posted on 05/31/2022 7:17:18 PM PDT by TexasGurl24
The crux of Robinson’s post:
“On Primary Day in Georgia, Kemp gets 74% and Perdue gets 22%. Nobody in any election in America gets 74% of the votes. Ever. It doesn’t happen.
Obvious fraud.”
But the thing that Robinson claims never happens actually happens with regularity. Aaron Blake points to a 2009 study that “found that about 1 in 10 Senate incumbents took less than 75 percent of the vote in their primaries. Many faced token or no opposition, but it does happen — very regularly.”
. . .
Marjorie Taylor Greene carried 70 percent of her district at the same time Brian Kemp was re-nominated statewide with 74 percent of the vote. A conspiracy theory about Georgia that tried to account for Greene’s victory would at least have the virtue of being entertaining.
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
I wonder if that must have been rigged?
Yeah, they kind of do. Quite frequently in primaries, in fact.
Just read the whole article - very disappointing Trump would promote this.
No surprise Emerald Robinson would say something like this, though.
Yep. When I pointed that out and how utterly insane Robinson’s claim was, quite a few here on FR melted down.
I mean on the very same night Sanders won 83% of the vote in her primary.
I’m not sure what Robinson was smoking.
The core issue, I think, is that every election, when the results come out, or the results are delayed, one party, or the other party, tosses their nose in the air and says “Obvious fraud!” Take it back to Bush/Gore or Kennedy/Nixon. It’s an old problem, and it’s clearly getting worse.
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a national election system that was so open and transparent that people really believe that cheating was impossible? And that if an audit were needed, it could be reliable achieved in about 60 minutes?
But neither party wants to take a step in that direction. Which brings us back to that core issue ...
Kemp was polling at 52% the day before the election. But the real difference here is that Kemp was controversial. It may have been legit, but then again it smells rancid that he would beat Purdue that badly, without the help of Democrats possibly voting for him. Ga. has open primaries. Besides that Pence was supporting Kemp, which by all standards, should have been a poisonous bite for him.
Maybe, maybe not. But the suggestion that “no one” ever gets 74% in an election is just utter nonsense - no person with a modicum of knowledge of politics would utter such a statement.
The real political sides are populists vs elitists. The populists do want secure elections. The elitists claim that the populists are just racists who want to rob minorities of the vote.
Virtually all the Democrat party is Elitist, and much of the Republican party is. But there is a growing chunk of the Republican party that is populist.
Florida elections are the model. They’ve been increasingly good since the 2000 debacle.
They did cheat in the GA Primary. National Review is Republican Establishment.
Well, that’s the thing. Once elections have been corrupted, there is no reason to believe there will ever be a fair election again. Especially when no one is held accountable for in your face fraud. The question is not if there was fraud, the questions are how much and by who.
So you think Georgia suddenly has clean elections?
Only because the Pubbies pried the wicked witches of Broward and Palm Beach counties (Snipes and Bucher) out of their fraud bailiwicks.
There's still a lot of hanky-panky to tamp down in the northeast and central parts of the state.
DeSantis only beat the RentBoy by 33,000 votes.
Florida went GOP in a D wave year. It’s trending right.
I trust Emerald Robinson hands-down any day of the week, over ANY publicized election total of any state, county, or district.
The Narrative says 2018 was a D wave year.
I beg to differ.
Exactly.
Although I voted for most of the maga candidates, myself and virtually all republicans in our rural county voted for Kemp. His early opening up of Georgia,gas tax relief and income tax rebee as Ted were big factors and Perdue ran a lackluster campaign
What JoSixChip said, and comparing the most right wing Congressional District in the state to the statewide governor’s race is absurd at best.
Well, that’s the thing. Once elections have been corrupted, there
is no reason to believe there will ever be a fair election again.
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Lots of difference from today to back when paper ballots were
used and marked by the voter. Then the ballot was manually
counted with representatives from various groups witnessing
the count.
Electronics has change things mostly for good but not always.
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