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Let the Sunshine In [John Lott debunks DNC's Fla. election 2000 lies ~ again]
National Review ^
| Dec. 10, 2003
| John R. Lott Jr.
Posted on 12/10/2003 9:56:19 AM PST by Ragtime Cowgirl
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To: Ragtime Cowgirl
bttt
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posted on
12/10/2003 11:21:55 AM PST
by
1rudeboy
To: Destructor
Don't forget that the Gore headquarters (Daley) contacted a public relations firm in Texarkana that was calling black voters in Florida before the polls closed to tell them they were "disenfranchized".
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
It is difficult to believe that wealthy people were more confused by the ballot than poor people. Perhaps the rich or black Republicans simply did not like the choices for president and so did not vote on that part of the ballot. Perhaps there was tampering, but it is difficult to see how it could have been carried out and covered up. Pretty simply, actually. There are two ways to tamper. Produce votes for one candidate, or steal them from another. Stats conveniently ignored are that Gore had already carried Broward and Palm Beach County by larger percentages than he statistically would be expected to. If you put 10 or 15 ballots in a voting machine and punched through the Gore slot, all of the Gore votes would be unaffected. However, the Bush and Buchanan votes would now be double-votes, hence, thrown out. Non-votes become Gore votes. This would also produce the dimpled or pregnant chads you heard so much about, as it is more difficult to push through 10 cards than one. There was rampant fraud. They just didn't steal enough votes.
Couple of Democrat techniques from back in the Lyndon Johnson days:
Make your bought precinct the last one to report so you'll know how many votes to steal
If it gets tight, keep doing recounts until you're ahead, then declare the election over.
The Gore team successfully did the first, and almost pulled off the second.
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
"Faulty voting machines were said to have thrown out their votes at higher rates." Oh yeah, I forgot all about the racist voting machines. One of our most effective tools.< /sarcasm >
"Also included are claims that the voters' intent wasn't properly divined"
Note to election commitees, especially in Florida, get psychic voting machines or at least require election judges to be psychics.
"Democrats have also claimed that low-income voters suffered non-voted ballots disproportionately."
I guess they just didn't have enough money to pay someone to punch their ballot correctly....probably too weak from hunger. < /sarcasm >
"Perhaps there was tampering"
Ya think? DUH!
Terry McAuliffe clearly stated his strategy "to use the anger and resentment that will come out of that 2000 election, put it in a positive way to energize the Democratic base."
When did revenge become a positive? And especially when you consider that the wrong done them is only in their minds. They're just mad because their guy didn't succeed in stealing the election. The fix was in and they still lost lost. Boo..freakin'...hoo. Yeah, revenge...that'll inspire a lot of voters. morons and jackasses...every last one of them.
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posted on
12/10/2003 11:36:36 AM PST
by
sweetliberty
(Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.)
To: Richard Kimball
Make your bought precinct the last one to report so you'll know how many votes to stealThis is why, IMHO, the vote sampling / exit-polling syndicate (I forget its name)was willing to make early "Gore wins" calls for the close states with-Gore-leading, but reluctant to do the same for "not-so-close-races'with-Bush-leading". It's because they know, statistically, that there is a sneaky prediliction for late-reporting counties to switch the outcome, always from inner-city and other dem districts.
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posted on
12/10/2003 11:39:13 AM PST
by
WL-law
To: Freedom4US
"Democrats should be ashamed" That would require a conscience. I have seen little evidence to suggest that more than a very few of them possess one.
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posted on
12/10/2003 11:47:31 AM PST
by
sweetliberty
(Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.)
To: Richard Kimball
I am convinced that a lot of RAT voter fraud would be curtailed if ALL precincts and ALL counties had to have declared their vote counts before even the first one could be reported publicly! Sure, there'd still be fraud, but I think that would also make it easier to catch...if there were a will to stop it.
If prosecution for voter fraud were swift, public and severe, it would definitely make some of them think twice before doing it.
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posted on
12/10/2003 12:01:39 PM PST
by
sweetliberty
(Better to keep silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt.)
To: Timesink
Does anyone know if the network's calling of states will be done differently in '04? I think I rmember some chatter about this since the last debacle.
To: Timesink
Exactly!! Meaning THE MEDIA CHEATED Bush out of also getting the popular vote.
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posted on
12/10/2003 12:42:15 PM PST
by
CyberAnt
(America .. the LIGHT of the World)
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
I've sent this excellent article to media outlets & several columnists......BTTT
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posted on
12/10/2003 1:47:37 PM PST
by
JulieRNR21
(One good term deserves another! Take W-04....Across America!)
To: Alberta's Child
The Gore case was effectively a lost cause once they decided to order recounts with different counting standards only in certain countiesActually it was the counties that chose different standards. Credit where credit is due. There were Democrat controlled boards in all the contested counties, but not all were equally willing to cheat for Gore. A couple tried, at least initially, to follow Florida law and their own precedents, and do a fair recount. That, of course, didn't manufacture appreciable numbers of Gore votes.
One of the highlights of the whole fiasco was the Gore campaign suing a Democrat board in midcount -- after the ballot patterns had been analyzed -- to force it to shift to a more subjective standard. The DUmmies forget that part -- Gore suing honest Democrats to force them to cheat.
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posted on
12/10/2003 3:02:34 PM PST
by
sphinx
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
Reason and truth are not dem strong points.
To: windchime; JulieRNR21
We should encourage the DNC to do it again. DNC election 2002: "revenge of the disenfranchised Dem 2000 voters!"
"Jeb is gone!" Mr. McAuliffe declared brazenly, brushing aside the determination of the White House to protect the president's brother. "There won't be anything as devastating to President Bush as his brother's losing in Florida." --Terry McAuliffe, DNC Chairman, NY Times, Oct. 23, 2002
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On Nov. 5, 2002, Florida voters, both Republican and Democrat, voted fair and square (again) and 1) re-elected Jeb Bush, a Republican Governor - first Republican Governor reelected in Florida's history, 2) elected Katherine Harris (R) to Congress, 3) gave Florida a 100% Republican Cabinet, 4) elected a majority of Republicans to the Florida House, 5) didn't elect Al Gore's Florida campaign manager and former attorney general Bob Butterworth, or 6) Carol Roberts, Palm Beach County Democrat and election accuser; 7) Republicans took back the federal Senate, 8) Republican Governors won across the nation.
After being told by the DNC leaders that Florida voters would turn out in droves to avenge election 2000 ~ Florida voters did turn out ~ and overwhelmingly validated election 2000.
How did the 'unbiased press' deal with this amazing election? By giving "we the people" a week of NANCY PELOSI, newly elected Democrat House minority leader.
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posted on
12/10/2003 7:30:39 PM PST
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
( "Our military is full of the finest people on the face of the earth." ~ Pres. Bush, Baghdad)
To: WL-law
Remember that all national polls conducted days before the election had Bush comfortably in front. Remember that Gore went on a 24-hour marathon campaigning swing, in my view to create "plausible cover" for the vote swing to follow. Remember that nearly all accusations of Dems not being able to vote, or related irregularities were in counties where the voting mechanisms were controlled by Dems, and often in precincts where there were no Republican representatives.
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posted on
12/10/2003 8:12:15 PM PST
by
lepton
To: Ragtime Cowgirl
bump
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posted on
02/26/2004 6:08:04 AM PST
by
jonno
(We are NOT a democracy - though we are democratic. We ARE a constitutional republic.)
bump for reference
To: sweetliberty
I meant to link this for you last time. One very positive outcome from election 2000 ~ we learned we could make a difference:
*** Our Side Found Heart ***
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posted on
02/26/2004 10:24:19 AM PST
by
Ragtime Cowgirl
("(We)..come to rout out tyranny from its nest. Confusion to the enemy." - B. Taylor, US Marine)
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