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I am the furthest thing from a “troo believer.” I follow the idea that “extraordinary theories require extraordinary evidence.” I’m not a 9/11 truther or a birther (I think the scandal is Obama pretended to be Kenyan-born which helped him get into Harvard.) Climate change happens, it’s happened as long as the world has existed. Not enough evidence to show we are to blame for any weather pattern changes of the last few decades. Definitely not enough for the Greenies to try to “fix” it.

It’s just we can’t take for granted that Democrats acting as an organized cheating machine isn’t an extraordinary proposition. We know they are amoral. We know they are organized. We know they hate us. We know they feel justified with every slimy move they pull. We know they try to cheat and don’t find a problem with it. It’s just the fact that it’s really comfortably easy to say “pah on conspiracy theories” and it’s hard to actually accept the world is not as nice as we like to think.

I have a friend who is going to look at the numbers by voting precinct and see whether there are any irregularities between ‘08 and ‘12. Already we are seeing interesting things, even if they are legit. For one, Republican turnout was not down evenly across the board. Romney got way more votes in TX than McCain received in 08. Wisconsin netted more than 150K more this election as well. But in OK and Kansas, Republican turnout dropped. Also in Vermont. Because they knew how their states would go? Perhaps. But I’m tired of the “evangelicals didn’t turn out” line as if we are a monolith of belief. We can’t just assume without actually looking at the data. Of course I want to compare the Dem-controlled district turnout in BG states with Rep-controlled districts. That could show any oddities in counting.

Forgive the overlong post. Got a lot of thoughts on this subject. :)