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The lie that lingers: 3 in 10 Americans falsely believe the election was riddled with fraud (only because it was)
Washington Post (democracy dies with democrats) ^ | 1/19/20 | Philip Bump

Posted on 01/20/2021 4:20:33 PM PST by Libloather

There are millions of Americans who will refuse to believe this sentence: There is no credible evidence of any significant fraud in the 2020 presidential election.

Different people will take issue with different words. Some will reject the idea that the evidence that’s been presented by President Trump and his allies in conservative media and on Capitol Hill isn’t credible. But it isn’t; amateur affidavits aren’t credible evidence any more than tortured numerical analysis is. Others will debate the word “substantive,” willfully claiming that the existence of any fraud - which exists at a small scale, as it generally does - somehow suggests a level of fraud that calls into question President-elect Joe Biden’s victory margins of more than 10,000 votes in several states.

Those who refuse to acknowledge the reality of Biden’s win will have different motivations for doing so. Some will dismiss my arguments as illegitimate simply because they come from the hated mainstream media. For a large part of the population, Trump’s obvious bias somehow lends him more credibility than The Washington Post’s imputed bias. Others will reject my arguments because Trump’s allies have generated a mountain of nonsense meant to serve as a counterweight to reality, as though a million drawings of unicorns combined with a fervent desire to believe that unicorns exist can offset the complete lack of demonstrated evidence of the creatures. One of the marvels of the Trump era, in fact, is how often “desire to believe” has replaced “reason to believe” as a motivator for a belief system.

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TOPICS: Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; History; Local News
KEYWORDS: bidenvoters; criminalconspiracy; democratscandals; election; failedenglishmajor; fraud; gaslightmedia; philipbump; stolen; stopthesteal; thedailygaslight; therearefourlights; trump; wapo
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To: Libloather

If you take a channel like OAN or newsmax or even fox before the election night. And show the actual evidence like they did, and show the evidence on ALL CHANNELS, report it on your local news and get it out to the people. Show those senate and town hall commission meetings live on these channels with Rudy having 100’s of WITNESSES THAT HAVE SIGNED AFFIDAVITS right in front of your faces showing and hearing the evidence. The ones with the GA video from State Farm. The guys telling them “we are currently signed into your voting machines that are online right now.” Run ballots and watch them change the votes. If the shoe was on the other foot and this happened to the democrats.. this would have been the biggest story ever in the world..

The ultra rich that run this made money with Trump in office, they will make money either way. But when democrats are in office they make more and have the power they want. So it was a all out assault on a majority of the people and done in our faces, if the people stood up and took care of business it would never have been traced to them. So they don’t care how hard they push.


61 posted on 01/20/2021 5:36:42 PM PST by glimmerman70
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To: Libloather

The people who have been claiming ‘election fraud’ for four years cantsudddnly claim NOT.


62 posted on 01/20/2021 5:38:46 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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To: Libloather

I know democrats that admit they know it was stolen. It’s probably much higher than that.


63 posted on 01/20/2021 5:40:41 PM PST by barmag25
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To: Pikachu_Dad

You can’t HIDE YOUR Lying Eyes!


64 posted on 01/20/2021 5:41:50 PM PST by Boardwalk (Lets)
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To: Libloather

It’s fascinating with all these MoSt AcCuRaTe ElEcTiOn EvEr articles and how there was no fraud that they don’t celebrate that Biden got 12 million more votes than Obama did.

Almost like they don’t want to point that out...


65 posted on 01/20/2021 5:48:49 PM PST by Skywise
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To: Libloather

Regardless if there was not a single fraudulent vote (or a couple 100 thousand) the states VIOLATED THE CONSTITUTION by changing election law without the legislature. Every single vote in those states is invalid.


66 posted on 01/20/2021 5:52:56 PM PST by Organic Panic (Biden is a child sniffing pervert.)
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To: euram

That’s what democrats are!


67 posted on 01/20/2021 5:53:50 PM PST by maxwellsmart_agent (EQ)
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To: Libloather

Yes of course, the press keeps writing about “NO FRAUD” to insist that there was NO FRAUD.

How many times does a lie need to be repeated before it’s true?


68 posted on 01/20/2021 6:16:22 PM PST by Roman_War_Criminal (Jesus + Something = Nothing ; Jesus + Nothing = Everything )
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To: Libloather

That means 2 out if 3 Americans falsely believe Traitor Joe actually won. I suspect it is more like 50/50.


69 posted on 01/20/2021 6:34:09 PM PST by Nateman (Keep Liberty Alive! Article V)
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To: ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton

According to a Rasmussen poll conducted November 17-18, nearly half of likely voters, 47%, believe the election was stolen from Trump.
75% of Republicans believe it is very likely (61%) or somewhat likely (14%) that the election was stolen from Trump.
30% of Democrats believe it is very likely (20%) or somewhat likely (10%) that it was.

So nearly a third of even DEMOCRATS believe it is likely that the election was stolen from President Trump.


70 posted on 01/20/2021 6:41:47 PM PST by MNnice
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To: Libloather

Even if we had no other evidence of fraud that empty unattended inauguration says the election was a fraud, plain as day.


71 posted on 01/20/2021 6:53:44 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Libloather

Yet Philip Bump the author probably believes in the manmade global warming hoax unicorns, every last on of them; and probably also accepts nonsense about men being able to have periods...


72 posted on 01/20/2021 6:56:15 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: MNnice
According to a Rasmussen poll conducted November 17-18, nearly half of likely voters, 47%, believe the election was stolen from Trump. 75% of Republicans believe it is very likely (61%) or somewhat likely (14%) that the election was stolen from Trump. 30% of Democrats believe it is very likely (20%) or somewhat likely (10%) that it was. So nearly a third of even DEMOCRATS believe it is likely that the election was stolen from President Trump.

I have a liberal friend who was convinced they stole the nomination from Bernie, but didn't like Trump. Confidence in out elections is low. The bigger question is what will we do about it? Even 30% can affect change if determined to do something.
73 posted on 01/20/2021 6:56:42 PM PST by Dr. Franklin ("A republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Libloather

Fake inauguration for a fake president...


74 posted on 01/20/2021 6:57:42 PM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: Libloather

no clicks for commies


75 posted on 01/20/2021 7:22:59 PM PST by joshua c (Jan 20th is Dump Day. Dump them all. Twitter, Facebook, Google, Amazon, cable tv etc)
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To: Libloather
"...tortured numerical analysis..."

A very good phrase to use to deflect your own stupidity of statistics. There are many others, but that's a very good one.

76 posted on 01/20/2021 8:00:53 PM PST by budj (Combat vet, 2nd of three generations.)
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To: Libloather

You don’t post 27,000 armed National Guard troops in Washington because you had an honest and fair election.


77 posted on 01/21/2021 12:06:18 AM PST by BerryDingle (I know how to deal with communists, I still wear their scars on my back from Hollywood-Ronald Reagan)
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